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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> I have seen Spanish spellings with
the accent on other syllables, e.g.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> "Tenochtitlán". It could be that
sometimes, when Spanish-speakers try</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> to pronounce a Nahuatl name,
a stress on a short vowel may tend</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> to move to an adjacent long
vowel.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Certainly it is difficult for all native spanish
speakers utter an unstressed</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>long vowel, this is a tendency in all romance
languages (in italian all stressed</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>vowels automatically are long). Accentual pattern
of latin also shows this</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>tendency.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> Spanishisms get into Nahuatl: e.g. I read once
of Spanish {de} = "of"<BR>> getting into Nahuatl, and causing the
mixed-language combination {din} = {de in}.<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The case of spanish "de" is surprising because it
is a non-tonic particle!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Onpa citla:lyani</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>David Sánchez</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>