English
Etymology
From Spanish.
Noun
saltillo

1. In Mexican languages, especially Nahuatl, a glottal stop or fricative sound.
2. An apostrophe used to represent this sound.

Quotations
1915: Nahuatl � (saltillo) can be clearly shown to be developed in certain cases from syllabically final -t or -k, ... �Southern Paiute and Nahuatl - A Study in Utoaztekan, Part II, Edward Sapir, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun., 1915)
1937: In Aztec the second ultra-short vowel is syncopated, leaving however the glottal consonant or �saltillo,� ... �The Origin of Aztec Tl, B.L. Whorf, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun., 1937)
1960: ... the grave accent for the saltillo, as in tàtli /ta�λi/ father; and the circumflex for the �saltillo final�, as in t�tlî /ta·λi�/ we drink. ... The saltillo of Rincón corresponds to that of Carochi, with the additional information from Rincón that the saltillo �solamente se halla en la sílaba breve�. �'Accent' in Classical Aztec, William Bright, International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 26, No. 1. (Jan. 1960)
1993: Third, Whorf�s hypotheses concerning the origin of �saltillo� (basically glottal stop) are an important stage in the development of Uto-Aztecan linguistics, and in the study of Nahuatl in particular. �Pitch Tone and the "Saltillo" in Modern and Ancient Nahuatl, Lyle Campbell and Frances Karttunen, International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 59, No. 2 (Apr., 1993)
2005?: The famous "saltillo" is a glottal stop [Ê�] in some variants, or a fricative [h] in others, but there are not two separate glottal phonemes. â��Nahuatl Consonants, David Tuggy ¹

Spanish
Etymology
"Little jump", diminutive of salto "a jump", from Latin saltus, from salio|salire "to jump", from Proto-Indo-European *sal-yo-. Related to English sally.
Noun

1. Saltillo.

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