Lacandon language

Lacandon
Jach-tʼaan
Pronunciation	[xatʃ tʼaːn]
Native to	Mexico
Region	Chiapas
Ethnicity	1,000 Lacandon people (2000)
Native speakers	770 (2020 census)
Language family	Mayan Core Mayan Yucatecan Yucatec–Lacandon Lacandon
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lac
Glottolog	laca1243
ELP	Lacandon

A Lacandon language speaker in Mexico.

Lacandon (Jach-tʼaan in the revised orthography of the Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenas) is a Mayan language spoken by all of the 1,000 Lacandon people in the state of Chiapas in Mexico. Within Chiapas, Lacandon is spoken in Betel, Lacanjá San Quintín, Lake Metzaboc, Metzaboc, and Najá.

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.

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]