| Lacandon | |
|---|---|
| Jach-tʼaan | |
| Pronunciation | [xatʃ tʼaːn] |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Chiapas |
| Ethnicity | 1,000 Lacandon people (2000) |
Native speakers | 770 (2020 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lac |
| Glottolog | laca1243 |
| ELP | Lacandon |
Lacandon (Jach-tʼaan in the revised orthography of the Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenas)[2] is a Mayan language spoken by all of the 1,000 Lacandon people in the state of Chiapas in Mexico.[3] Within Chiapas, Lacandon is spoken in Betel, Lacanjá San Quintín, Lake Metzaboc, Metzaboc, and Najá.[1]
Native Lacandon speakers refer to their language as Jach tʼaan or Hach tʼan. Most Lacandon people speak Lacandon Maya. Most also speak Spanish.
Phonology
[edit]The following tables list the standard phonemes of the Lacandon language.
Consonants
[edit]| 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 | w [ʋ] | l [l] | y [j] | |||
| Flap | r [ɾ] | |||||
References
[edit]- ^ a b 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
