Saltillo
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Saltillo is a noun meaning In Mexican languages, especially Nahuatl, a glottal stop or fricative sound.
Meaning
In Mexican languages, especially Nahuatl, a glottal stop or fricative sound.
More Meanings
- In mostly Hispanophone countries, especially Mexico, an apostrophe-like letter (lowercase ꞌ and in some orthographies capital Ꞌ) used to represent a glottal stop.
Word Forms
- saltillos
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sulcalization, hiss, gutturalization, sibilant, dentilingual, tintinnabulation.
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