Lacandon Maya language
E876962
The Lacandon Maya language is an indigenous Mayan language spoken by the Lacandon people of southeastern Mexico, known for preserving many archaic features of the Mayan language family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lacandon Maya language canonical | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Chʼol language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tzeltal language NERFINISHED ⓘ Tzotzil language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | partially documented ⓘ |
| endonym | Jach tʼaan Lacandon ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Lacandon Maya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family | Mayan language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Northern Lacandon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southern Lacandon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
conservative morphology compared to other Mayan languages
ⓘ
conservative phonology compared to other Mayan languages ⓘ preserves archaic Mayan features ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
aspect-based verbal system
ⓘ
ergative–absolutive alignment ⓘ possessive prefixes on nouns ⓘ rich system of verbal affixes ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom | Spanish language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive glottalized consonants
ⓘ
tone absent ⓘ vowel length distinctions ⓘ |
| hasResourceType |
dictionaries
ⓘ
grammars ⓘ text collections ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Spanish language ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | lac ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mayan ⓘ |
| languageOf | Lacandon rainforest communities ⓘ |
| languageStatus | endangered ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology |
agglutinative language
ⓘ
head-marking language ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers | few thousand ⓘ |
| primaryWordOrder |
verb–object–subject
ⓘ
verb–subject–object ⓘ |
| region | southeastern Mexico ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Lacandon people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Chiapas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Western Maya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Mayan historical linguistics research
ⓘ
studies of language contact in Chiapas ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication within Lacandon communities
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ traditional ritual practices ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Lacandon ritual chants
ⓘ
traditional Lacandon myths ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.