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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Nahuatl pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
In Aztec mythology, Tepēyōllōtl (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈtepeːˈjoːlːoːt͡ɬ]; "heart of the mountains"; also Tepeyollotli) was the god of darkened caves, earthquakes, echoes and jaguars. He is the god of the Eighth Hour of the Night, and is depicted as a jaguar leaping towards the Sun.
Cuitláhuac (Spanish pronunciation: [kwiˈtlawak] ⓘ, modern Nahuatl pronunciation ⓘ) (c. 1476 – 1520) [1] or Cuitláhuac (in Spanish orthography; Nahuatl languages: Cuitlāhuac, [2] Nahuatl pronunciation: [kʷiˈt͡ɬaːwak], honorific form: Cuitlahuatzin) was the 10th Huey Tlatoani (emperor) of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan for 80 days during the year Two Flint (1520). [3]
Nahuatl (English: / ˈ n ɑː w ɑː t əl / NAH-wah-təl; [5] Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈnaːwat͡ɬ] ⓘ), [cn 1] Aztec, or Mexicano [8] is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family.
Possible depiction of the Centzon Tōtōchtin in the Florentine Codex. In Mexica mythology, the Centzon Tōtōchtin (Nahuatl pronunciation: [sent͡son toːˈtoːt͡ʃtin] "four-hundred rabbits"; also Centzontōtōchtin) are a group of divine rabbits who meet for frequent drunken parties.
The Aztec or Nahuatl script is a pre-Columbian writing system that combines ideographic writing with Nahuatl specific phonetic logograms and syllabic signs [1] which was used in central Mexico by the Nahua people in the Epiclassic and Post-classic periods. [2]
Ehecatl (Classical Nahuatl: Ehēcatl [eˈʔeːkatɬ], modern Nahuatl pronunciation ⓘ) is a pre-Columbian deity associated with the wind, who features in Aztec mythology and the mythologies of other cultures from the central Mexico region of Mesoamerica.
The choice for c, ç and z to represent /s/ instead of simple s was dictated by the pronunciation of Spanish sibilants in the 16th century, which was different from modern pronunciation. [13] At that time the graph s , as used in Spanish orthography, represented an apico-alveolar sibilant, which was perceived by speakers of Nahuatl as being ...