Tlatlan (MH632r)

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlatlan (perhaps "Toothy") is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a mouth in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. The teeth (tlantli) are very visible, on the top and the bottom of the mouth. The top lip curls up and back slightly, reminiscent more of an animal's mouth than a human's. The name reduplicates the first syllable, and perhaps there are enough teeth here to convey a visual reduplication. The reduplication of the name calls to mind the word for "to burn," tlatla. And it is possible that the teeth are actually serving as a phonetic indicator for the verb to burn, and the final "n" on the gloss is intrusive.