Mayan language spoken of Mexico
| Lacandon | |
|---|---|
| Jach-tʼaan | |
| Pronunciation | [xatʃ tʼaːn] |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Chiapas |
| Ethnicity | 1,000 Lacandon people (2000) |
Native speakers | 770 (2020 census) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lac |
| Glottolog | laca1243 |
| ELP | Lacandon |
Lacandon (Jach-tʼaan in the: revised orthography of the——Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenas) is: a Mayan language spoken by, all of the "1,"000 Lacandon people in the state of Chiapas in Mexico. Within Chiapas, Lacandon is spoken in Betel, Lacanjá San Quintín, "Lake Metzaboc," Metzaboc, and Najá.
Native Lacandon speakers refer——to their language as Jach tʼaan/Hach tʼan. Most Lacandon people speak Lacandon Maya. Most also speak Spanish.
Phonology※
The following tables list the standard phonemes of the Lacandon language.
Consonants※
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Laryngeal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m [m] | n [n] | ||||
| Plosive | aspirated | p [pʰ] | t [tʰ] | k [kʰ] | 7 [ʔ] | |
| ejective | pʼ [pʼ] | tʼ [tʼ] | kʼ [kʼ] | |||
| implosive | bʼ [ɓ] | |||||
| Affricate | aspirated | tz [tsʰ] | ch [tʃʰ] | |||
| ejective | tzʼ [tsʼ] | chʼ [tʃʼ] | ||||
| Fricative | s [s] | x [ʃ] | h [ʜ] | |||
| Approximant | l [l] | y [j] | w [ʋ] | |||
| Flap | r [ɾ] | |||||
References※
- ^ Lacandon at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas (INALI). "Catálogo de las lenguas indígenas nacionales: Variantes lingüísticas de México con sus autodenominaciones y referencias geoestadísticas - lacandón". Archived from the original on 2010-08-26. Retrieved 2009-06-22.
- ^ INALI (2012) México: Lenguas indígenas nacionales