Lacandon

E157527

Mayan language endangered language indigenous language of the Americas

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.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Lacandon Maya	10
Lacandon people	6
Lacandon canonical	3
Lacandón Maya	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1350810 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Lacandon
Context triple: [Mayan languages, includesLanguage, Lacandon]

A. Popoluca
Popoluca refers to several closely related indigenous languages of the Mixe–Zoquean family spoken by native communities in southern Veracruz, Mexico.
B. Mazatec
Mazatec is an indigenous Oto-Manguean language (or group of closely related languages) spoken primarily by the Mazatec people in the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Puebla, and Veracruz.
C. Huastec
Huastec is a Mayan language spoken by the Huastec people primarily in northeastern Mexico, especially in parts of Veracruz and neighboring states.
D. Totonac
Totonac is an indigenous language family of eastern Mexico, traditionally spoken by the Totonac people primarily in the states of Veracruz and Puebla.
E. Nahua
The Nahua are a major indigenous people of Mexico, historically associated with the Aztecs and speakers of various Nahuatl languages across central and southern regions.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Lacandon
Target entity description: 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.

A. Popoluca
Popoluca refers to several closely related indigenous languages of the Mixe–Zoquean family spoken by native communities in southern Veracruz, Mexico.
B. Mazatec
Mazatec is an indigenous Oto-Manguean language (or group of closely related languages) spoken primarily by the Mazatec people in the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Puebla, and Veracruz.
C. Huastec
Huastec is a Mayan language spoken by the Huastec people primarily in northeastern Mexico, especially in parts of Veracruz and neighboring states.
D. Totonac
Totonac is an indigenous language family of eastern Mexico, traditionally spoken by the Totonac people primarily in the states of Veracruz and Puebla.
E. Nahua
The Nahua are a major indigenous people of Mexico, historically associated with the Aztecs and speakers of various Nahuatl languages across central and southern regions.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Mayan language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ indigenous language of the Americas ⓘ
belongsToMacroArea	Mesoamerica ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Chʼol ⓘ surface form: Chol Chontal of Tabasco ⓘ surface form: Chontal Maya Tzeltal Maya ⓘ surface form: Tzeltal Tzotzil ⓘ
country	Mexico ⓘ
endangermentFactors	language shift to Spanish ⓘ limited intergenerational transmission ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Lacandon self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Lacandon Maya
hasAlternativeName	Jungle Maya language ⓘ Lacandon ⓘ surface form: Lacandón Maya
hasArchaicFeatures	Mayan languages ⓘ surface form: Mayan language family
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	Maya peoples ⓘ surface form: Mayan
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 self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Lacandon people
spokenIn	Chiapas ⓘ Mexico ⓘ
spokenInRegion	Lacandon Jungle ⓘ
status	minority language ⓘ threatened ⓘ
subfamily	western Maya lowlands ⓘ surface form: Western Maya
usedFor	daily communication within Lacandon communities ⓘ oral literature ⓘ traditional rituals ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (20)

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

Mayan languages → includesLanguage → Lacandon ⓘ

southern Mexico → hasEthnicGroup → Lacandon ⓘ

subject surface form: Southern Mexico

this entity surface form: Lacandon people

indigenous peoples of Mexico → majorEthnicGroup → Lacandon ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lacandon people

Chiapas → containsEthnicGroup → Lacandon ⓘ