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She doesn't give "her" pronunciation, she purports to give the "Aztec" pronunciation, which she gets wrong (the tl represents the voiceless alveolar lateral affricate, a rare affricate found in some Central/North American languages and Icelandic; the second element of the affricate, the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative |ɬ|, is more common, found in Welsh, Icelandic (in both spelled ll), some Norwegian and Swedish dialects (l in the pairs lt and tl), some Caucasian, African and Asian languages and many Central/North American languages. It seems to arise by leveling of the alveolar lateral approximant |l| with the adjacent voiceless alveolar stop |t|. It's a difficult phoneme that if you didn't grow up speaking, you probably can't wrap your tongue around.