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{{Short description|Mayan language spoken of Mexico}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Lacandon
| nativename       = {{lang|lac|Jach-tʼaan}}
| pronunciation    = {{IPA|myn|xatʃ tʼaːn|}}
| states           = [[Mexico]]
| region           = [[Chiapas]]
| ethnicity        = 1,000 [[Lacandon people]] (2000)
| speakers         = {{sigfig|771|2}}
| date             = 2020 census
| ref              = e25
| familycolor      = Mayan
| fam1             = [[Mayan languages|Mayan]]
| fam2             = Core Mayan
| fam3             = [[Yucatecan languages|Yucatecan]]
| fam4             = [[Yucatec Maya language|Yucatec]]–Lacandon
| iso3             = lac
| glotto           = laca1243
| glottorefname    = Lacandon
}}

[[File:WIKITONGUES- Ross speaking Lacandon.webm|thumb|A Lacandon language speaker in Mexico.]]

'''Lacandon''' (''Jach-tʼaan'' in the revised [[orthography]] of the ''[[Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenas]]'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.inali.gob.mx/catalogo2007/html/v_lacandon.html|title=Catálogo de las lenguas indígenas nacionales: Variantes lingüísticas de México con sus autodenominaciones y referencias geoestadísticas - lacandón|author=[[Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas]] (INALI)|access-date=2009-06-22|archive-date=2010-08-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100826172038/http://www.inali.gob.mx/catalogo2007/html/v_lacandon.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> is a [[Mayan language]] spoken by all of the 1,000 [[Lacandon people]] in the state of [[Chiapas]] in [[Mexico]].{{#tag:ref|[[INALI]] (2012) [http://site.inali.gob.mx/pdf/libro_lenguas_indigenas_nacionales_en_riesgo_de_desaparicion.pdf ''México: Lenguas indígenas nacionales'']|name=INALI}} Within [[Chiapas]], Lacandon is spoken in [[Betel]], Lacanjá San Quintín, Lake Metzaboc, Metzaboc, and [[Naha, Chiapas|Najá]].<ref name=e25/>

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===

{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center
|-
! colspan=2 | 
! [[Labial consonant|Labial]]
! [[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
! [[Glottal consonant|Laryngeal]]
|-
! colspan=2| [[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| '''m''' {{IPAblink|m}}
| '''n''' {{IPAblink|n}}
| 
| 
| 
|-
! rowspan=3| [[Plosive consonant|Plosive]]
! {{small|[[Aspiration (phonetics)|aspirated]]}}
| '''p''' {{IPAblink|pʰ}}
| '''t''' {{IPAblink|tʰ}}
| 
| '''k''' {{IPAblink|kʰ}}
| rowspan=3| '''7''' {{IPAblink|ʔ}}
|-
! {{small|[[Ejective consonant|ejective]]}}
| '''pʼ''' {{IPAblink|pʼ}}
| '''tʼ''' {{IPAblink|tʼ}}
|
| '''kʼ''' {{IPAblink|kʼ}}
|-
! {{small|[[Implosive consonant|implosive]]}}
| '''bʼ''' {{IPAblink|ɓ}}
| 
| 
|
|-
! rowspan=2| [[Affricate consonant|Affricate]]
! {{small|[[Aspiration (phonetics)|aspirated]]}}
|
| '''tz''' {{IPAblink|tsʰ}}
| '''ch''' {{IPAblink|tʃʰ}}
| 
| 
|-
! {{small|[[Ejective consonant|ejective]]}}
|
| '''tzʼ''' {{IPAblink|tsʼ}}
| '''chʼ''' {{IPAblink|tʃʼ}}
| 
| 
|-
! colspan=2| [[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
| 
| '''s''' {{IPAblink|s}}
| '''x''' {{IPAblink|ʃ}}
| 
| '''h''' {{IPAblink|ʜ}}
|-
! colspan=2|  [[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
| '''w''' {{IPAblink|ʋ}}
| '''l''' {{IPAblink|l}}
| '''y''' {{IPAblink|j}}
|
| 
|-
! colspan=2|  [[Tap and flap consonants|Flap]]
| 
| '''r''' {{IPAblink|ɾ}}
| 
| 
| 
|}

==References==

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