tlahtoa / saltillo

[John Sullivan Hendricks]

The saltillo spoken by the two native speakers from the Huasteca I work with
goes like this:
1. between two vowels it sounds just like an English "h": "ahacatl" = wind
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" = road
3. at the end of a word it's a barely audible aspiration after the vowel:
"ticamanaloah" = we talk.

	John Sullivan
	Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas