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'''Tlatoani''' (IPA: ; plural ''tlatoque'', IPA: ) is the Nahuatl term for the ruler of an ''altepetl'', a pre-Hispanic city state. The word literally means "speaker", but may be translated into English as "king".^[1] A '''cihuatlatoani''' (IPA: ) was a female ruler, or queen regnant.^[2]

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1. Lockhart (2001): p. 238; Scroeder (2007): p. 3; Wimmer (2006): TLAHTOANI
2. Schroeder (2007): pp. 3–4; Wimmer (2006): CIHUATLAHTOANI.

References

★ Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Lockhart, James, , , Stanford University Press, 2001,

★ Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory, Schroeder, Susan, , , , 2007,

★ Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl classique Wimmer, Alexis

See also

★ Huey tlatoani