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 17
Lacandon people 8
Lacandon canonical 7

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 (33)

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
Core Mayan → hasLanguage → Lacandon ⓘ
Itza people → relatedEthnicGroup → Lacandon Maya ⓘ
linked to: Lacandon
Chʼol people → relatedEthnicGroup → Lacandon people ⓘ
linked to: Lacandon
Na Bolom Museum → servesCommunity → Lacandon Maya ⓘ
linked to: Lacandon
Chʼol Maya → relatedEthnicGroup → Lacandon Maya ⓘ
linked to: Lacandon
Lacandon Maya language → spokenBy → Lacandon people ⓘ
linked to: Lacandon
Lacandon Maya language → ethnicGroup → Lacandon Maya ⓘ
linked to: Lacandon
Ocosingo → hasSignificantEthnicGroup → Lacandon Maya ⓘ
linked to: Lacandon
Ocosingo Municipality → hasEthnicGroup → Lacandon Maya ⓘ
linked to: Lacandon
Maayaʼ tʼàan → closelyRelatedTo → Lacandon Maya ⓘ
linked to: Lacandon