[Nahuat-l] Chicago's Field Museum

Michael McCafferty mmccaffe at indiana.edu
Tue Dec 30 22:29:45 CST 2008


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

> Craig Berry wrote:
>>> Yes, that it what they had. They also had other
>>> abominations like
>>>
>>>  cuauhtin (kwah-oo-teen).
>>
>> How would you render that properly into informal phonetics?
>
> I'd go with kwow-teen.

That's very nice for informal phonetics. Better than the Field 
Museum's. Again, an acute accent mark over the first syllable would be 
nicer.


Michael




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