| Nativename | Jach-tʼaan |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | xatʃ tʼaːn |
| States | Mexico |
| Region | Chiapas |
| Ethnicity | 1,000 Lacandon people (2000) |
| Date | 2020 census |
| Ref | e25 |
| Familycolor | Mayan |
| Fam 1 | Mayan |
| Fam 2 | Core Mayan |
| Fam 3 | Yucatecan |
| Fam 4 | Yucatec–Lacandon |
| Iso 3 | lac |
| Glotto | laca1243 |
| Glottorefname | Lacandon |
Lacandon (Jach-tʼaan in the revised orthography of the Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenas)[1] is a Mayan language spoken by all of the 1,000 Lacandon people in the state of Chiapas in Mexico.[2] Within Chiapas, Lacandon is spoken in Betel, Lacanjá San Quintín, Lake Metzaboc, Metzaboc, and Najá.[3]
Native Lacandon speakers refer to their language as Jach tʼaan or Hach tʼan. Most Lacandon people speak Lacandon Maya. Most also speak Spanish.
Phonology
The following tables list the standard phonemes of the Lacandon language.[4]
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Laryngeal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m m | n n | ||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p p | t t | k k | ' ʔ | |
| ejective | pʼ pʼ | tʼ tʼ | kʼ kʼ | |||
| implosive | bʼ ɓ | |||||
| Affricate | voiceless | tz ts | ch tʃ | |||
| ejective | tzʼ tsʼ | chʼ tʃʼ | ||||
| Fricative | s s | x ʃ | j h | |||
| Approximant | w w | l l | y j | |||
| Flap | r ɾ | |||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i i ii iː | u u uu uː | |
| Mid | e e ee eː | ä ə | o o oo oː |
| Low | a a aa aː |
References
- ^ 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
- ^ e25
- ^ Hofling, Charles A. (2014). Lacandon Maya-Spanish-English Dictionary. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.