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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.
Classical Nahuatl, also known simply as Aztec or Codical Nahuatl (if it refers to the variants employed in the Mesoamerican Codices through the medium of Aztec Hieroglyphs) and Colonial Nahuatl (if written in Post-conquest documents in the Latin Alphabet), is a set of variants of Nahuatl spoken in the Valley of Mexico and central Mexico as a lingua franca at the time of the 16th-century ...
The language was formerly called Aztec because it was spoken by the Central Mexican peoples known as Aztecs (Nahuatl pronunciation: [asˈteːkaḁ]). Now, the term Aztec is rarely used for modern Nahuan languages, but linguists' traditional name of Aztecan for the branch of Uto-Aztecan that comprises Nahuatl, Pipil, and Pochutec is still in use ...
For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ] , / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters . 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 ...
In Aztec mythology, Xolotl (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈʃolot͡ɬ] ⓘ) was a god of fire and lightning. He was commonly depicted as a dog-headed man and was a soul-guide for the dead. [2] He was also god of twins, monsters, death, misfortune, sickness, and deformities.
Coatlicue (/ k w ɑː t ˈ l iː k w eɪ /; Classical Nahuatl: cōātl īcue, Nahuatl pronunciation: [koː(w)aːˈt͡ɬiːkʷeː] ⓘ, "skirt of snakes"), wife of Mixcōhuātl, also known as Tēteoh īnnān (pronounced [teːˈtéoʔˈíːnːaːn̥], "mother of the deities") is the Aztec goddess who gave birth to the moon, stars, and Huītzilōpōchtli, the god of the sun and war.
Huehueteotl (/ ˌ w eɪ w eɪ ˈ t eɪ oʊ t əl / WAY-way-TAY-oh-təl; Nahuatl pronunciation: [weːweˈteoːt͡ɬ]) is an aged Mesoamerican deity figuring in the pantheons of pre-Columbian cultures, particularly in Aztec mythology and others of the Central Mexico region. The spellings Huehuetéotl and Ueueteotl are also used.
Aztec metal axe blades.Prior of the arrival of the European settlers, see: Metallurgy in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica Large ceramic statue of an Aztec eagle warrior. The Nahuatl words aztēcatl (Nahuatl pronunciation: [asˈteːkat͡ɬ], singular) [11] and aztēcah (Nahuatl pronunciation: [asˈteːkaʔ], plural) [11] mean "people from Aztlán", [12] a mythical place of origin for several ethnic ...