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.
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Phonology
The following tables list the standard phonemes of the Lacandon language.
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Laryngeal | ||
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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
- ^ 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