University of Arizona Press. Linguistic variations over such a short distance as that between St. John's Mission and the north bank of the Gila proved to be so much of a handicap in recording the Pima names of plants that I was forced to confine myself to the use of a single dialect. Father Willenbrink states that his pronunciation key is practical rather than technically scientific, and I have found it to be such in recording for ultimate printing. It therefore seems obvious that the simplified phonetic system devised by Father Willenbrink should serve every practical purpose in recording terms and thereby obviating the necessity of employing diacritical marks and other devices which, especially to the non-professional student, are often confusing. The language of the Pima and Papago is remotely related to Aztec, or Nahuatl.
Accent is always on the first syllable of a Pima word.
With the kind permission of Father Willenbrink I am including the following key to Pima pronunciation. The other consonants are pronounced as in English, except that g is always hard, as in get.