Fwd: Re: Chicago's Field Museum

[Michael McCafferty]

Quoting "Robert A. Neinast" <neinast at att.net>:

> Michael McCafferty wrote:
>>>> Oh, and for a final
>>>> "tl" they had it pronounced simply as "t".
>>
>> It's like that in some dialects, so it's not a great offense.
>
> Don't forget, this exhibit was "The Aztec World," not
> "The Modern Nahuatl Dialects World."

Naturally, an exhibit of this caliber should have -tl instead of -t. 
That's agreed.

>
> Or were there dialects 500 years ago that did this?

Yes. In fact, the sound written -tl derives from a proto-Uto-Aztecan 
/*t/ following /a/. It's not unreasonable to assume that some ancient 
dialects did not take that /*t/ to the sound written -tl. I don't 
believe the necessary evidence exists to corroborate that notion, 
however.

Michael

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