QU: Nahuatl words -- accented in English?

[anthony.appleyard at umist.ac.uk]

On 7 Oct 2002, at 10:06, John F. Schwaller wrote:
> What is strange is that modern accentuation of place names is frequently
> different from appropriate Nahuatl accentuation.  For example Teotihuacan
> should be TeotiHUAcan, but is written today as Teotihuacán.  Similarly
> ChimalHUAcan but written today as Chimalhuacán

If the last vowel was long in Nahuatl: [...-wa'ka:n], that long vowel
might have attracted the accent as local pronunciation became
influenced by Spanish.

Citlalyani