How To Pronounce Natlan's Aztec Words 

All the words in Nahuatl are paroxytones, so the stressed syllable is always the penultimate one (except for some VERY few cases). Also, if you want a pronunciation of classical Nahuatl, you should also consider prolonged vowels (ā, ē, ī, ō) and the saltillo or glottal stop, these phonemes aren't commonly found in today's Nahuatl variants, but they were present in Classical Nahuatl. It's been a long time since the last time I played Genshin, it's really interesting to hear that Hoyoverse added a new region based in the Nahua culture. EDIT: The -tlan locative suffix means "place rich in...". And good job pal.

As a Mexican, I don't think we pronounce 'Coatepec' the way you did, probably because it's an actual city in Veracruz. However, you nailed 'Citlali'! It was tough to overlook how it was pronounced in the game (as 'SIT-LAH-LEE,' which is incorrect). I can't speak for all the other names/words, even though we were taught Nahuatl in school. I personally pronounce them differently (like putting a strong emphasis on 'TLÁN'), but I could be wrong. There's an NPC which is my favorite one because his name is Tepache, which is an ancient alcoholic beverage made from fermented fruits or corn. Thank you so much for sharing and educating others! 💖

most words end with "tl" . It sounds kinda cool

"Valley of people of stone garments" would make sense, given that the children of echoes are versed in jewelry crafting

Watching the initial frustration with the pronunciation of Natlan reminded me of hearing the really bad German in Mondstadt. "Holy Lyre der ha--mell??" Plus everything Fischl says, but that's supposed to be in-character for her.

So Xilonen is the goddess of corn? I can't unlearn that lmao

I know that the video was about the Nahuatl words in Natlan, but I was a bit dissapointed to not hear any of the Yucatec (Mayan) words such as Kinitch (KEE-NIT-SH) (I think, I deciphered it from wikipedia). But the video was fantastic, keep up the good work!

no way the word tocayo comes from genshin impact

The sage of the stolen flame tho, Im summoning demons trying to pronounce him

Thanks for sharing. Even for Liyue which focuses on Chinese culture, there are still foreign names such as Morax. So for Natlan with mixed American and African background, I guess it's understandable to have multiple origins.

Like the Liyue one, this is very much needed!! The explanation is cherry on the top.

Maybe what you assume as Aztec names with typo might have some other origins since Natlan has other aspects mixed into it. Not just Aztec theme.

I can't even be that mad with the way foreigners pronounce the names since they sound exactly like a person who just learned these words and has small comprehension of Latam Spanish and it's rules. Regardless, this is a good video.

There's a difference between Aztec and Mexica and Nahua, what you are trying to teach are the names from the Nahua culture.

I love how I mean I'm not mexican but I am latino, and spanish is a simple enough lenguage that every word just sounds like I thought it sounded cause every letter really sounds the same in every word and there aren't many weird changes depending on the word like in english. The only thing that changes sometimes is the intonation

I hate hearing people saying the name Ixbalanque, because they pronounce it as "shibalanke", when it should sound more like "Ishbalanke". He was one of the twin gods from the Popol Vuh, which is not mexica, but mayan

Love how the tepetli in tepetlisaurus was pronounced in nahuatl and then saurus was pronounced in english.

Me watchin this video even when i'm a native mexican and i am able to pronunciate most of the aztec words correctly 🗿

I posted this as a reply to someone, but I'll post it here for more to see Just like how "ch" is actually "t" + "sh", "tl" is "t" + "l" but this "l" sounds like some weirdly pronounced "sh" or "s" - the tongue is in the position to make the "l" sound, but you try pronouncing "s" at the same time. At least, that's how I'd describe that "l" sound, from a phonetics POV. This "tl" is called the Voiceless alveolar lateral affricate. Wikipedia has a sample of the sound and the languages it's used in.

I play genshin with Chinese text. Tequemecan valley is "坚岩隘谷" in Chinese text. Direct translation is "hard rock/stone narrow valley" in English. Hope this may help.

This is amazing thank you sooo much!

Thank you so much for making this! Can you do some of the NPCs and lore names next? Like Xiuhcoatl?

Thank you for your video! Also i liked the funny or jokey moments in the video❤❤

So, we’re getting one of these every new patch? 😬 Good work! 👍🏼 I like the “3 times for word”, for anyone unfamiliar with this sounds Mexican here ☝🏼

THANK YOU FOR THIS!

with all the misspelling that Genshin always do with names it make sense with other names having missplelling for Natlan

Well Coatepec would actually be (Ko-ah-teh-PEK) Aka enunciating the last syllable

Excelente video, muchas gracias!

6:32 "How is Tocaitl pronounced?" "The toca is pronounced to-ka, basically how the japanese would say it" "and the itl?" "oh that isn't actually pronounced, but it is an indicator, that you're supposed to mimick the sound of air escaping a tire in a short burst" "what?"

Highly helpful, thank you so much. Would you consider doing something similar for Mayan words probably?

According to this video, Neuvillette is the only one that I can think of who correctly pronounces “Natlan.” 👍🏼💙 He says it at the end of Fontaine Archon Quest, yknow when a region representative normally tells the Traveler what to expect in the next region they’ll journey to, whereas he speaks about Natlan being a land of dragons & to expect facing against Il Capitano.

While i appreciate the effort, it seems kind of funny to me how you pronounce it, nahuatl is hard even for us mexicans so i'm glad you made this. Also is kind of refreshing the fact that a gringo is actually making useful content instead of crying on twitter over skin colors and that kind of woke bs... ❤

Thank you so much, next video about Natlan region should be about Mayan and Aztec culture, geography and animals presented in game. I can recognise a lot but still Natlan looks way more African in my eyes, especially those big trees and those big animals alike giraffes 🦒.

I'm curious about the opinions of Nahuatl speakers on Genshin's implementation of the language in game

It's similar to Indonesian, except we pronounce 'c' as 'che' 😊

Im subscribing !!!

As a Filipino we also use Tokayo / Tukayo for people who share the same name!

I wouldve never expected being french to help me with pronounciation, english vowels are weird

so cool

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0:04 You pronounced Liyue wrong, not Liwei, it is Liyue. 0:26 Nut land = Nat lein 0:50 Natlan = Nat lan

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Its interesting to me how the pronunciation has a very slavic sound to it. Of course there cant really be a connection there but I find it amusing. Either that or you are slavic and it comes through a lot when doing the proper pronunciations.

I love this, although im not Mexican nor a descendant of the Meosamerican Tongues, i am from southamerica which *Region-wise* still has a lot of cultural similarities with the Mesoamericans and the Mexicas from which the devs took a lof inspiration to Create the concept of Natlan, so its pretty much obvious to say most Latin-Spanish speakers like me, can relate to the problem regarding the butchering of most words in the EN voice over, without mentioning the clear cultural whitewash *cough*, for me though it has been pretty easy to pronounce Natlan's words correctly since at least in my country its common to teach children about our Region's Indigenous cultures and Ancient Civilizations that once occupied the land we live on, in our case it was the Inca Empire, making me at least more familiar with the cultural aspects of Natlan that include things such as Panflutes sounding in the OST and other Pre-colombine and andean influences. Of course we still get to learn a lot about the Aztecs, Mayans and the Yucatecs so its easier for Latinoamericans to have a better idea of The Nahuas Tongues way of pronouncing the TL/Xi/huas/huitz etc, not to mention most of the indigenous cultures in this Region have similar ways or pronounciations given the geographical proximity making the Phonetical Similarities pretty common in Latinamerica. So Thank you for this video i was actually waiting for someone to make it, every time i heard people saying Nat-Lan or Cit-La-Lee i couldn't help but to ick at the sound of it Btw sorry for the paragraph

Xilonem' s pronunciaton here and in the hame is a pet peeve for me because maybe in my dialect our nahualt and mayan words wich begins with X are not pronounced like sh or ch but like the X letter 😢

Nut-Landia >:D

I say coatepec veeery differently lol

Nut Land

Hmmm dunno dude, with all the spell mistakes, maybe u should consider a second take 😅

Love how Genshin Impact ignored Southeast Asian cultures when it's the largest player market of this game.