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tlatlani.

Headword: 
tlatlani.
Principal English Translation: 

to ask questions, to inquire (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtlani
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhtɬɑni
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHTLAN(I) to ask questions, to inquire / preguntar (C). This also appears in P. See IHTLAN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 265.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tlanahuati ynic tlahtlaniloz yn itoca Diego Xihouel = autorizo para preguntar al llamado Diego Xihouel (Tlaxcala, 1562) [o para que sea preguntado]
Catálogo de documentos escritos en Náhuatl, siglo XVI, vol. I (México, Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 21.

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