What Does Saltillo Mean In Spanish?

small skip In the field of Mexican linguistics, the name for a glottal stop consonant (IPA: []) is "saltillo," which literally translates to "small skip" in Spanish. Early speakers of Classical Nahuatl grammar are credited with giving the language its name. The use of a symbol that looks like an apostrophe in the spelling of the glottal stop is most likely derived from various transliterations of the Arabic letter hamza.