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THIS i bingo PAGE IS CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTIONAs with any other spoken language, there are several different manners in which Nahuatl can be transcribed:phonemic, phonetic, morphemic, syllabic, etc.Phonemic transcriptionA faithful phonemic transcription needs to represent the following phonemes:consonants: :voiceless stops:   /p/, /t/, /k/, /q/, :voiceless affricates:   /z/, /r/, /c/:voiceless fricatives:   /s/, /x/:voiced nasals:   /m/, /n/:laterals: /l/:semivowels:   /v/, /y/vowels: :short:

  /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/:long:   /a:/, /e:/, /i:/, /o:/:: the glottal stop and the glottalized vowels are parenthesised because either one or the other is needed , but not both.A phonemic transcription of Nahuatl must distinguish between the i bingo vowel length and short vowels shown above. Unfortunately, this is not usually done in practice . This omission may hinder learners of Nahuatl and cause confusion due to minimal pairs.Phonetic transcriptionA faithful

phonetic transcription i bingo needs to take into account the fact that the following phonemes have multiple phonetic realizations:/n/::m _p:n_o :n otherwise/m/::n_o _#:m otherwise/l/::l V_V:l_o otherwise/y/::y_o _#, _t:y otherwise/r/::l l_:r otherwise/s/::x ?_?:s otherwise/o:/::u: stressed:o: otherwiseMorphemic transcriptionA faithful morphemic transcription would have to provide a graphemic representation for each element of the set of morphemes in the language::-cal-  →  K_al:-tl-  → 

T_l:-ä-  →  A:-chi-  →  C_i:-hua- i bingo  →  U_aächihuacalli i bingo  →  AC_iU_aK_alT_lSyllabic transcriptionA faithful syllabic transcription would have to provide a graphemic representation for each element of the set of all valid syllables in the language, which is the same set as that of the morphemes, since

all Nahuatl morphemes are monosyllabic::.kal.  →  K_al:.tl.  →  T_l:.ä.  →  A:.chi.  →  C_i:.hua.  →  U_aächihuacalli  →  AC_iU_aK_alT_lHistorical transcriptionWhen the Spanish friars

began transcribing Nahuatl into the Roman alphabet they, naturally, made use of the Spanish language practices as a basis for the Nahuatl script. In doing this, they faced the following problems:) Spanish lacked the voiceless lateral fricative ɬ Spanish lacked the lateral alveolar affricate t^l Spanish lacked the glottal/?pharyingeal fricative ħ Spanish lacked the glottal/?pharyingeal

fricative ŵ Words are stressed on the second-to-the-last vowel X is pronounced like English SH . TL counts as a single consonant, never as a full syllable.TL is, in linguistic terms, a lateral consonant affricate. This is a type of sound found in very few European languages but commonly i bingo found in North and Central American indigenous languages. HU and UH are both pronounced W. Z is pronounced like English S .Before the conquest, there existed differences between the Nahuatl of the people, and the Nahuatl of the upper classes. The upper classes had created an esoteric

language; for example, the word Aztlan means "the place of the storks". But Stork means "white", and white means "the origin", so in the language of the upper classes, Aztlan means "the place of origin". This has complicated the translation of the surviving Aztec writings.Since the time of the Spanish conquest the spelling of Nahuatl has varied considerably. U alone may replace UH or HU to represent the sound of W. Vowel length may or may not be marked. I may replace the consonant Y. W may replace HU or UH for the sound of W. S may replace Z/Ç for the sound of S. In some unusual cases, non-ASCII symbols are used for TL, CH, CU/UC, and TZ to stress that these are single consonants, not compounds.category:nahuatl