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Frances Karttunen karttu at nantucket.net
Sat Nov 27 16:28:22 UTC 1999


>>From the dialogue between Leonel and Joe:

> if one were to
> write true 'classical' Nahuatl should one maintain 'ozomahtli'
> and 'cocoah' instead of 'cocoa'?

> ****  Yes.  The lack of writing the glottal stop ('h') is one of the
> serious faults of 16th century orthography.

Yes, it's a good idea to write in the "h" in ozomahtli.

But no, one should not write "cocoah" in all places.

The singular present form is cocoa.  The plural present is cocoah.

Fran



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