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Xóchitl (Mexican Spanish pronunciation: [ˈʃotʃitɬ]) [1] is the Hispanicized version of "xōchitl", the Nahuatl word for flower (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈʃoːtʃitɬ]) is a given name that is somewhat common in Mexico and among Chicanos for girls. [2] [3] The name has been a common Nahuatl name among Nahuas for hundreds of years.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Spanish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Spanish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
IPA is used for phonetics, and this article doesn't show the Spanish phonetics, and what many people do study on the Spanish universities. Studies as Filología Hispánica, Hispanic studies goes really in-depth the Spanish pronunciation which is different from what you get on here. Here you can only see the Spanish allophones ð, β, ɣ and z.
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The reference used for this (Hualde 2005) mainly focuses on the Iberian standard variety based on northern Spanish pronunciation, where this lenis pronunciation does take place natively (and with the author being Spaniard himself). However this is not the case for Latin America, where coda /k/ is strictly realised not as an approximant or ...
The z in the Spanish word chorizo is sometimes realized as / t s / by English speakers, reflecting more closely the pronunciation of the double letter zz in Italian and Italian loanwords in English. This is not the pronunciation of present-day Spanish, however. Rather, the z in chorizo represents or (depending on dialect) in Spanish.
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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Latin on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Latin in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.