article on Aztecs II

[Frances Karttunen]

"Now that K also promises a problem when a K reader suddenly runs into a
Maya word....since the K in Maya means a hard C sound followed by a
glottla stop....I think????"

The only Mayan language I know much about is Yucatec.  There orthographic k
stands for [k] ("hard C") in all contexts, including before the vowels i
and e.  Hence Yucatec ceh 'deer' is pronounced [keh], not [seh].  It's not
a question of glottalization.

Fran