Lacandon language
| Lacandon | |
|---|---|
| Jach-t’aan | |
| Pronunciation | [xatʃ tʼaːn] |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Chiapas |
| Ethnicity | Lacandon people |
Native speakers | 600 (2015)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lac |
| Glottolog | laca1243 |
| ELP | Lacandon |
Lacandon (Jach-t’aan 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.[4]
Native Lacandon speakers refer to their language as Jach t’aan or Hach t'an. 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 [p̪ʰ]1 | t [tʰ] | k [kʰ] | 7 [ʔ] | |
| ejective | p' [pʼ] | t' [tʼ] | k' [kʼ] | |||
| implosive | b' [ɓ] | |||||
| Affricate | aspirated | tz [tsʰ] | ch [tʃʰ] | |||
| ejective | tz' [tsʼ] | ch' [tʃʼ] | ||||
| Fricative | s [s] | x [ʃ] | h [ʜ] | |||
| Approximant | l [l] | y [j] | w [ʋ] | |||
| Flap | r [ɾ] | |||||
References
- ^ Lacandon at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
- ^ 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.
- ^ INALI (2012) México: Lenguas indígenas nacionales
- ^ "Lacandon".
