Lacandon language
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| Lacandon | |
|---|---|
| Jach-t’aan | |
| Pronunciation | [xatʃ tʼaːn] |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Chiapas |
| Ethnicity | Lacandon people |
| Native speakers | 560 (2000)[1] |
| Language family | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lac |
Lacandon (Jach-t’aan[pronunciation?] in the revised orthography of the Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenas)[2] is a Mayan language spoken by approximately 1000 Lacandon people in the state of Chiapas in Mexico.[3] Native Lacandon speakers refer to their language as Jach t’aan or Hach t'an. A portion of the Lacandon people also speak Tzeltal, Chol, and Spanish.[3]
Sounds [edit]
The following tables list the standard phonemes of the Lacandon language.
Consonants [edit]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Velar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aspirated | ejective | aspirated | ejective | aspirated | ejective | aspirated | ejective | |||
| Nasal | m [m] | n [n] | ||||||||
| Plosive | b' [ɓ] | p' [pʼ] | t [tʰ] | t' [tʼ] | k [kʰ] | k' [kʼ] | 7 [ʔ] | |||
| Affricate | p [p̪ʰ] | tz [tsʰ] | tz' [tsʼ] | ch [tʃʰ] | ch' [tʃʼ] | |||||
| Fricative | s [s] | x [ʃ] | h [ʜ] | |||||||
| Approximant | l [l] | y [j] | w [ʋ] | |||||||
| Flap | r [ɾ] | |||||||||
References [edit]
- ^ Lacandon at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas (INALI). "Catálogo de las lenguas indígenas nacionales: Variantes lingüísticas de México con sus autodenominaciones y referencias geoestadísticas - lacandón". Retrieved 2009-06-22.
- ^ a b Gordon, Raymond G., Jr., ed. (2005). "Lacandon" (online version). Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Barbara F. Grimes (contributing ed.) (Fifteenth ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. OCLC 60338097.
