Lacandon

E157527

Lacandon is a Mayan language spoken by the Lacandon people of the Lacandon Jungle in Chiapas, Mexico, known for preserving many archaic features of the Mayan language family.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Lacandon Maya 10
Lacandon people 6
Lacandon canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mayan language
endangered language
indigenous language of the Americas
belongsToMacroArea Mesoamerica
closelyRelatedTo Chol
linked to: Chʼol

Chontal Maya
linked to: Chontal of Tabasco

Tzeltal
linked to: Tzeltal Maya

Tzotzil
country Mexico
endangermentFactors language shift to Spanish
limited intergenerational transmission
ethnicGroup Lacandon Maya
linked to: Lacandon
hasAlternativeName Jungle Maya language
Lacandón Maya
linked to: Lacandon
hasArchaicFeatures Mayan language family
linked to: Mayan languages
hasDocumentation grammatical descriptions
lexicons
text collections
hasISO6393Code lac
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
glottalized consonants
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism in Lacandon and Spanish
hasSpeakerPopulation very small number of speakers
hasTypologicalFeature ergative–absolutive alignment
head-marking morphology
hasWordOrder verb–object–subject (VOS)
verb–subject–object (VSO)
influencedBy Spanish (lexical borrowing)
languageBranch Mayan
linked to: Maya peoples
languageFamily Mayan language family
languageOf Lacandon mythological narratives
Lacandon traditional religion
preserves archaic Mayan verbal morphology
archaic Mayan vocabulary
conservative phonology compared to other Mayan languages
region Chiapas
spokenBy Lacandon people
linked to: Lacandon
spokenIn Chiapas
Mexico
spokenInRegion Lacandon Jungle
status minority language
threatened
subfamily Western Maya
usedFor daily communication within Lacandon communities
oral literature
traditional rituals
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (20)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Southern Mexico hasEthnicGroup Lacandon people
subject linked to: southern Mexico
linked to: Lacandon
indigenous peoples of Mexico majorEthnicGroup Lacandon people
linked to: Lacandon
Chiapas containsEthnicGroup Lacandon Maya
linked to: Lacandon
Petén Department hasIndigenousLanguage Lacandon Maya
linked to: Lacandon
Itzaʼ closelyRelatedTo Lacandon
Lacandon spokenBy Lacandon people
linked to: Lacandon
Lacandon ethnicGroup Lacandon Maya
linked to: Lacandon
Lacandon hasAlternativeName Lacandón Maya
linked to: Lacandon
Maya peoples hasSubgroup Lacandon Maya
linked to: Lacandon
Maya lowlands modernInhabitantsInclude Lacandon Maya
linked to: Lacandon
Lacandon Jungle inhabitedBy Lacandon Maya
linked to: Lacandon
Tzotzil people relatedEthnicGroup Lacandon people
linked to: Lacandon
Tzeltal people relatedEthnicGroup Lacandon people
linked to: Lacandon
Yucatec Maya closelyRelatedTo Lacandon Maya
linked to: Lacandon
Chol people relatedEthnicGroup Lacandon people
linked to: Lacandon
Chiapas Highlands ethnicGroup Lacandon Maya
linked to: Lacandon
Chol Maya relatedEthnicGroup Lacandon Maya
linked to: Lacandon
Mopan Maya closelyRelatedTo Lacandon Maya
linked to: Lacandon