I need help with how to say all those fun names with the Aztec/ Mayan feel in Tamoachan.
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I need help with how to say all those fun names with the Aztec/ Mayan feel in Tamoachan.
This will help. The Aztec language is Nahuatl.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/3088/nahuatl.html--Ray.
Nahuatl romanization was invented by Spanish-speaking missionaries and so letters correspond generally to their phonetic values in Spanish--except I believe "x" was pronounced like English "sh." (Modern Mexicans usually pronounce "x" Nahuatl-derived names as either an "s" before a consonant or an English "h" before a vowel).
I'm not sure how many of those names are actually borrowed from real Nahuatl or Maya sources, and how many are just inventions that are supposed to have a vague "Mesoamerican" feel.