Lacandon language

Lacandon
Jach-t’aan
Pronunciation	[xatʃ tʼaːn]
Native to	Mexico
Region	Chiapas
Ethnicity	Lacandon people
Native speakers	1000 (2010 census)[1]
Language family	Mayan Yucatecan Yucatec–Lacandon Lacandon
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lac
Glottolog	laca1243[2]

Lacandon (Jach-t’aan in the revised orthography of the Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenas)^[3] is a Mayan language spoken by all of the 1,000 Lacandon people in the state of Chiapas in Mexico.^[1] 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

1. INALI (2012) México: Lenguas indígenas nacionales
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lacandon". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. 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.