tlahtoa / saltillo

[Michael Mccafferty]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, John Sullivan Hendricks wrote:

> The saltillo spoken by the two native speakers from the Huasteca I work w=
ith
> goes like this:
> 1. between two vowels it sounds just like an English "h": "ahacatl" =3D w=
ind
> 2. between a vowel and a consonant it sounds like the saltillo described =
in
> the classical grammars (Like Mark says : glottal stops that emanate and
> terminate below the mouth): "ohtli" =3D road
> 3. at the end of a word it's a barely audible aspiration after the vowel:
> "ticamanaloah" =3D we talk.

John, does no. 3 go for both singular and plural?

Thanks,
Michael

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