NOTE ON THE PRONUNCIATION OF MEXICAN
Reading edition
The pronunciation of Mexican names presents at first some little difficulty. The letter X is invariably pronounced as sh, so that Mixcoatl and Mexitli are, viva voce, Mishcoatly and Meshitlee, the final tl being pronounced as tl followed by a short y, although the natives in many parts of the country articulate it with a definite clicking sound, unapproachable by a European. The names of the more important gods are pronounced as follows:
Uitzilopochtli = Wit-zil-o-potchtly
Tezcatlipocâ = Tez-catly-pocā
Quetzalcoatl = Quetzal-co-at-ly
Xipe = Shee-pay
Chalchihuitlicue = Chal-chĕĕ-wĕĕt-lēē-kway.
Most of the others are comparatively simple of pronunciation. The ch sound is pronounced as in Spanish, i.e. hard, as in “thatch.”