What is llama (the animal) in Spanish?

English word llama is borrowed from Spanish word llama, which in turn comes from quechua. The ‹ll› in Spanish has different regional pronunciations. The canonical pronunciation is a voiced palatal lateral approximant, similar to Italian ‹gli›. This is like an ‹l› but with the dorse of your tongue near the paladar roof. read more

In Spanish and English the word “llama”,(the animal), has the same meaning . With one difference, llama, is pronounced Yama. The two ll s in Spanish have a soft y sound like in the English word Yard. read more