Classical Nahuatl/Incorporation of Foreign Words

Due to the phonology of Nahuatl not covering all possible sounds in Spanish, foreign words that are incorporated into Nahuatl are made to fit Nahautl's phonology using the closest Nahuatl phoneme. Conversion tableSpanish SoundNahuatl Sound Reasoning guerrero quellelo gobernador copelnatol medio melio medial position exception caballo cahuallo medial position exception doña toya one form of substitution for "ñ" doña tona one form of substitution for "ñ" Fabian papia F turns into a P José Xoce normal substititution cristiano, cruz quixtiano, coloz Nahuatl cannot start with two consonants. If a Spanish word starts with two consonants, the "r" sound in dropped. mula mola batan patan 50%