Lacandon language

{{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

| fam2 = Yucatecan

| fam3 = Yucatec–Lacandon

| iso3 = lac

| glotto = laca1243

| glottorefname = Lacandon

}}

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Lacandon (Jach-tʼaan in the revised orthography of the Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenas){{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}} 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 Najá.

Native Lacandon speakers refer to their language as Jach tʼaan or Hach tʼan. Most Lacandon people speak Lacandon Maya. Most also speak Spanish.