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Lacandon language

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Lacandon
Jach-tʼaan
Pronunciation[xatʃ tʼaːn]
Native toMexico
RegionChiapas
Ethnicity1,000 Lacandon people (2000)
Native speakers
770 (2020 census)[1]
Mayan
Language codes
ISO 639-3lac
Glottologlaca1243
ELPLacandon
A Lacandon language speaker in Mexico.

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

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The following tables list the standard phonemes of the Lacandon language.

Consonants

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Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Laryngeal
Nasal m [m] n [n]
Plosive aspirated p [] t [] k [] 7 [ʔ]
ejective [] [] []
implosive [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

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  1. ^ a b Lacandon at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ INALI (2012) México: Lenguas indígenas nacionales