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<p>Hello all,</p>
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<p><font size="2" face="tahoma">This is very off-topic, but I just heard a report on the volcano in Iceland, Eyjafjallajokull, the one that is causing such aeronautic trouble in Europe, and it sounded to my untrained ears that the Icelandic pronunciation of
their "ll" is precisely the same as Nahuatl "tl." </font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="tahoma">I also noticed that non-Icelandic reporters find it impossible to say.
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<p><font size="2" face="tahoma">The New York Times pronunciation guide, </font><font size="2" face="tahoma"><a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/iceland-volcano-spews-consonants-and-vowels/">http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/iceland-volcano-spews-consonants-and-vowels/</a></font><font size="2" face="tahoma">,
turns the middle "ll" into two sounds, "t" followed by "l" (keeping the "t" with the preceding syllable and annexing the "l" to the following one), and then has this about that tricky final -tl sound:
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<p><font size="2" face="tahoma">"the 't' at the end kind of sticks for a second and pulls away with a hint of a glottal 'l.'"
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<p><font size="2" face="tahoma">Guess that's the best you can do if you only have American English phonemes to work with.</font><font size="2" face="tahoma"> </font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="tahoma">David</font></p>
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