Re: Language Naming

BP.Jonsson wrote:
>
> At 11:33 on 22.1.1999, Hawksinger wrote:
>
> > Nahuatl is from a root variously translated as 'audible, clear,
> > intelligible, speaking clearly' (the last of which gave rise to my
> > own Feorran meaning the same'.)  The speakers of Nahuatl whom most
> > people know as Aztecs, called themselves "Mexihca" [meSi?ka] (hence
I should clarify that last sentence, it should read, "The Nahuatl
speakers whom most people know as Aztecs...."


> Um, does the orthography often use "h" for [?] as in "Mexihca"?  Cool!
>
There are many very different orthographies for Nahuatl, I favor the one
known as modified Franciscan which is also used in several major
dictionaries and pedagogical texts.  In that orthography, the glottal
stop is indicated with <h>.  Most orthographies ignore it and some use
<j>.

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