Systematic revision of Brachypelma, new genus described.

Petross

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Ok, so now i have in my breeding all Brachypelmas and all Tliltocatls (or what the hell are they called this month).
 

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Thanks for the video. That helped a lot. And it's actually quite easy now to pronounce Tliltocatl the right way. I think the fact that I'm German helps as well because the Nahuatl pronounce the vowels the same way as I do. ;)
Yes, I feel you! That's neat about German. I've learned that Nahuatl and Cherokee have an extremely wide overlap of letters sounds and syllable accent rules, so cool. So I feel ya. I'm glad the video helped and you enjoyed! :D



As an update for everyone, I have audio recordings of two different people pronouncing Tliltocatl, who I'm told are both native speakers and Nahuatl educators, in my FB messages... And I have permission to spread them... but for the life of me I can't figure how how to pull the clips from my messages on the ancient version of FB on browser so that I can upload them here. I'm often tragically hopeless when it comes to the latest technology, alas. How embarrassing!:sorry:
 

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As an update for everyone, I have audio recordings of two different people pronouncing Tliltocatl, who I'm told are both native speakers and Nahuatl educators, in my FB messages... And I have permission to spread them... but for the life of me I can't figure how how to pull the clips from my messages on the ancient version of FB on browser so that I can upload them here. I'm often tragically hopeless when it comes to the latest technology, alas. How embarrassing!:sorry:[/QUOTE]

Awesome! I am placing an order with Tliltocatls in it and would love to be able to say the name properly!
 

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As an update for everyone, I have audio recordings of two different people pronouncing Tliltocatl, who I'm told are both native speakers and Nahuatl educators, in my FB messages... And I have permission to spread them... but for the life of me I can't figure how how to pull the clips from my messages on the ancient version of FB on browser so that I can upload them here. I'm often tragically hopeless when it comes to the latest technology, alas. How embarrassing!:sorry:
Awesome! I am placing an order with Tliltocatls in it and would love to be able to say the name properly![/QUOTE]

Gotcha. I salute you! I'll tell you, it took me a looong time to get the "tl" and "dl", and I still stumble sometimes and just generally don't sound like a full on native speaker accent-wise. So if you wanna go full authentic, you have ALL my respect! And... get ready for dat practicing! :bookworm: lol

So yeahno let's get you those files... Hmmm...

But for serious... I'm dumb and can't figure this downloading crap out. But i see where it's easy to forward the media to another FB. If I did that, could someone download it then email it fo mean? Or maybe I should just go try from an actual PC. Grrr... I'm dumb!
 

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I try to pronounce things correctly in context of laguage as well. Take the name Alexi for example. In russian it would be pronounced "Alexsee" with a hard Ee sound. But in suomi it is closer to "Ah-lex (i)" with the i at the end being muted a bit. I get laughed at all the time but being in Canada and having 2 official languages it is kinda unavoidable to use the context.
 

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I don't know if I understand everything you're saying, @Arachnid Addicted, so I'm going to go back and carefully reread and answer you more thoroughly, hopefully. But in the meantime, I wanted to say to everybody...




I found a recording of an actual Nahuatl speaker saying Tliltocatl, and I'm trying to get a copy of it. But even better, one of the people I reached out to just got back to me- he's a native Nahuatl speaker AND does educational Nahuatl language outreach projects. He said he could probably make a video for us tomorrow! Cross your fingers!

Until then, here is an accurate pronounciation video for Nahuatl. Maybe, since this has audio and visual, this will answer questions and erase doubts:
Fascinating! Hopefully you can figure out how to get it in here. Maybe download it and then replied it? Finally, umbrella is pronounced Om-brella? I always said umbella.
 

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Okay, for those of you that want the NOT slightly Anglicized but full strength, authentic, real deal pronounciation of Tliltocatl from someone who is a Nahuatl speaker and language educator, below is an audio clip of one dialect's pronunciation and a screen shot of his information.

He is listed as @Nahuatl.Topanyolpepechtoc and we communicated through his student who said he didn't need to be named because his teacher "did all the work". But he's too kind, he was a very patient and indispensable dispenser of info and great go-between for his teacher. And a hero for his language! He did say, though, that I could say he is WarriorExotics on IG, so shoutout there.

His teacher confirmed the appropriateness of the slightly Anglicized version for English speakers who can't/don't want to get into the nitty gritty of entirely accurate pronunciation. ("kleel toe cock") Interestingly, this teacher seems to have a breathier "tl" than my other source, J. Adrián Pérez, who is the Nahuatl speaker/teacher who did the video I posted, but I think you'll hear that when I get that clip (hopefully tomorrow).

They other indispensable person in this is @pps, who is really the actual person who got these files to all of you, not me. He did wondrous technological sorcery! Three cheers for pps!

https://video-waw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v...7ac33714fab6f0bc1d1861b326e6&oe=5DC4F942&dl=1
 

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So "Tleel-to-kat"? "Tleel-to-cut"? Gosh, I didn't realize it would be this difficult (I say that as an English speaker; I'm not criticizing Nahuatl). I'm definitely chalking this one up as a win for the arachnologists...

Thanks @Feral and @pps for persevering to get this right! I definitely couldn't have done it.

Thanks,

Arthroverts
 

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So "Tleel-to-kat"? "Tleel-to-cut"? Gosh, I didn't realize it would be this difficult (I say that as an English speaker; I'm not criticizing Nahuatl). I'm definitely chalking this one up as a win for the arachnologists...

Thanks @Feral and @pps for persevering to get this right! I definitely couldn't have done it.

Thanks,

Arthroverts
The cheater version is "kleel toe cock".
The accent is on the TOE syllable.
It kinda removes the difficult "tl" part, which doesn't exist in the Romance languages and their relatives, but otherwise is pretty much the same, short of the fine tuning like inflection, tonality, and nasalization.
It seems like a lot of speakers of Eurpoean type language just hear the harsher/more clicky "tl" variants as just a breathy "cl/kl", and if they even notice at all it's not actually "cl/kl" it's usually only in the softer/less clicky variant. Like the Cherokee word Tla Ꮭ (which means "no") is a harsher "tl" variant and it just sounds pretty much like a breathy "claw" to most non speakers. Similar effect in Tliltocatl, so the "kl" cheat is the closest you can probably get using English sounds, to do it properly you have to learn to make a noise you never make.
But are you looking for, like, an actual how to make that "tl" noise with your mouth description?
I can do that, if that's what your asking.

Also, I found out there's an city called Tocatlan, which is roughly "Spider Place". I think we should all move to THAT town! :astonished:
 
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tliil-TOE-kahtlh. I can get behind that.

It kinda removes the difficult "tl" part
I do not find the tl to be difficult. Just say kl, but instead of keeping your tongue stiff and pushing/pulling down, slightly arch your tongue down, making almost a bowl, and lightly snap down. Try it with clap, clan and clout.
EDIT: Also think of it as saying the sound more with the front of your mouth rather than the back.
 
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I do not find the tl to be difficult. Just say kl, but instead of keeping your tongue stiff and pushing/pulling down, slightly arch your tongue down, making almost a bowl, and lightly snap down. Try it with clap, clan and clout.
EDIT: Also think of it as saying the sound more with the front of your mouth rather than the back.
I'm glad you find it not difficult, super cool. But also, really interesting! Do you use the "tl" or "dl" sound in any languages you speak?

I make the sound by putting the tip of my tongue on the roof of my mouth, behind my teeth (like where you would put it to start a normal T sound), and keeping a little stiffness to it as I breathe a puff of air to make the L sound so that air blows either around my immobile tongue for the harsher sound, or the air kinda blows the tip of my tongue off my barely off my palate to produce the softer one. I find by keeping the tip of my tongue either on, or very near, the roof of my mouth during the "tl" or "dl" I'm then in a position to go right into whatever vowel sound I need to make next. But that's just me, I'm sure whatever works, works!
 

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I'm glad you find it not difficult, super cool. But also, really interesting! Do you use the "tl" or "dl" sound in any languages you speak?

I make the sound by putting the tip of my tongue on the roof of my mouth, behind my teeth (like where you would put it to start a normal T sound), and keeping a little stiffness to it as I breathe a puff of air to make the L sound so that air blows either around my immobile tongue for the harsher sound, or the air kinda blows the tip of my tongue off my barely off my palate to produce the softer one. I find by keeping the tip of my tongue either on, or very near, the roof of my mouth during the "tl" or "dl" I'm then in a position to go right into whatever vowel sound I need to make next. But that's just me, I'm sure whatever works, works!
Oh, I do not speak any language but English. I even suck at that! I just find it easy and fun to pick up odd sounds and just make nonsense songs of them. Thank you ten years of speech therapy for making me know more about my tongue that I have ever wanted to know. Also, dl is new!

Interesting! I tend to not exhale a lot at all when speaking except for consents with h, such as kh or th or lh.
 

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I do not find the tl to be difficult. Just say kl, but instead of keeping your tongue stiff and pushing/pulling down, slightly arch your tongue down, making almost a bowl, and lightly snap down. Try it with clap, clan and clout.
EDIT: Also think of it as saying the sound more with the front of your mouth rather than the back.
I'm glad you find it not difficult, super cool. But also, really interesting! Do you use the "tl" or "dl" sound in any languages you speak?

I make the sound by putting the tip of my tongue on the roof of my mouth, behind my teeth (like where you would put it to start a normal T sound), and keeping a little stiffness to it as I breathe a puff of air to make the L sound so that air blows either around my immobile tongue for the harsher sound, or the air kinda blows the tip of my tongue off my barely off my palate to produce the softer one. I find by keeping the tip of my tongue either on, or very near, the roof of my mouth during the "tl" or "dl" I'm then in a position to go right into whatever vowel sound I need to make next. But that's just me, I'm sure whatever works, works!
That’s so interesting, and I’ve been wondering how native speakers form the ‘tl’ sound. I’ve been trying it out by pushing air against one side of my tongue, if that makes that makes any sense. Kind of like making an English ‘t’ sound but on the side of my mouth. Probably totally wrong! :p

Apologies if this is totally off track, but I stumbled upon the Nahuatl word for tarantula earlier and thought it was really cool - tlalhuehuetl :)
https://nahuatl.uoregon.edu/content/tlalhuehuetl
 

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Just completed my Brachypelmas. The last one I needed was albiceps and I just ordered one along with a Tliltocatl epicuraneaum too!
 

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I wrote a long thing but accidentally erased it. I'm sleeping dep-ing. Forgive.
I don't remember, it was probably something boring that was way too much about Cherokee nobody cares about, but I'm just over the moon that I actually got to use it for an actual real purpose. Plus, I got to combine Cherokee and spoods... I'm surprised I didn't pop! :dead:

But I do just want to say that I hope the correct pronunciation information gets out there, I hope people spread the right stuff and stop shoveling out the bad. That beautiful word, and the culture and people behind it, I hope we can do them justice.

I've thought about, maybe after the other teacher's contribution is uploaded, pointing this thread, or at least the pronunciation materials, at a few key people. Like maybe some hobby people who reach large audiences, and especially the people who established/named the genus. But I haven't thought that all the way through, and would be happy to hear people's thoughts!
 

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I wrote a long thing but accidentally erased it. I'm sleeping dep-ing. Forgive.
I don't remember, it was probably something boring that was way too much about Cherokee nobody cares about, but I'm just over the moon that I actually got to use it for an actual real purpose. Plus, I got to combine Cherokee and spoods... I'm surprised I didn't pop! :dead:

But I do just want to say that I hope the correct pronunciation information gets out there, I hope people spread the right stuff and stop shoveling out the bad. That beautiful word, and the culture and people behind it, I hope we can do them justice.

I've thought about, maybe after the other teacher's contribution is uploaded, pointing this thread, or at least the pronunciation materials, at a few key people. Like maybe some hobby people who reach large audiences, and especially the people who established/named the genus. But I haven't thought that all the way through, and would be happy to hear people's thoughts!
Sleep dep sucks:dead:
 
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