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Syllables tla, tle, tli, tlo and tlu are made up of a consonant group (the t and the l) and a vowel. The most common consonant groups in Spanish are bl, br, cr, cl, dr, fl, fr, gr, pl, pr and tr, and in fact we can find a fairly large number of words that include them combined with different vowels. For example: like soft, breeze, cream, key, drama, fringe, gram, feather, dam and swallow.
In contrast, the consonant group tl is much less common and certainly more difficult to pronounce. For example: athlete, atlas.
It can serve you:
- Words with ai, au, ia, ua, oi, ou, uo and ue
- Words with fra, fre, fri, fro and fru
Origin of the consonantal group tl
Although there are words of Greek and Hebrew origin that include these syllables, it is believed that the consonantal group tl comes from Nahuatl, the language of the Mexican territory at the time of the Aztec Empire.
The Spanish who arrived in America were incorporating this lateral dentoalveolar phoneme, in many cases with changes to facilitate its pronunciation; This happened in words like chocolate or tomato (which in Nahuatl were Chocólatl and Tmatl).
As can be seen, these words, like many others from other regions, were adapted to mainland Spanish.
- See also: Nahuatl words (and their meaning)
Examples of words with Tla, tle, tli
| TOtleta (Greek) | Pantyhosetlán (Nahuatl) |
| TOtlas (Greek) | TOtléTico (Greek) |
| Tlascalteca (Nahuatl) | TOtletismo (Greek) |
| Betlemita (Hebrew) | Tlaloc (Nahuatl) |
| TOtlántico (Greek) | Tlapalería (Nahuatl) |
| Decatleta (Greek) | TOtlixco (Nahuatl) |
| Gentleman (English) | Tenochtitlán (Nahuatl) |
| Tlayuda (Nahuatl) | Tlatelolco (Nahuatl) |
| TOtlántida (Greek) | Pentatleta (Greek) |
| TOtlante (Greek) | Tlaxcala (Nahuatl) |
