Pronounciations

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Originally Posted by Vilhem

I posted the pronunciation for Merl I think on the first page >.>

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Thanks. Its like one of the writers had an epileptic seizure near his keyboard and Square Enix decided to keep the name just because.

(See also: The Final Fantasy XIII trilogy's plot in a nutshell)

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Originally Posted by yoshikwalla

Thanks. Its like one of the writers had an epileptic seizure near his keyboard and Square Enix decided to keep the name just because.

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You'd love Iceland. Eyjafjallajökull


google it :D

Lol, people say that about my last name too :p

The pronunciations I've posted in this thread are, for the most part accurate (when comparing to Japanese phonetic spellings and my own knowledge of Dutch and French sounds).

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Originally Posted by Shougun

You'd love Iceland. Eyjafjallajökull


google it :D

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Bless you.

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Originally Posted by Shougun

Eyjafjallajökull

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Gesundheit.

Hyur: hi-yer

Elezen: Eh-leh-zen

Lalafell: Lah-lah-fail

Miqo'te: Me-koh-tey

Roegadyn: Row-guh-den


Merlwyb Bloefiswyn: Merl-web Blow-fish-win

Kan-E-Senna: Cane-E-Sinnah

Raubahn Aldynn: Rob-awn Al-Den

Dzemeal Darkhold(fuck this word): Dys-mole Dark-hold (sue me)

Limsa Lominsa: Lim-suh Low-men-suh

That's all I got for now.

Dzemael Darkhold: this one's pretty easy. "Zeh-mail"

one more, just for you Keith

Dragoon: loo-zer

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Originally Posted by Vilhem

Y'shtola: eesh-toh-lah (curiously enough, in katakana her name is written Ya-shu-to-ra)

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Oh interesting! Her name really is closer to my name than I thought! "yi-Ru".

Dalamud = Dal - ah - mud

Hydalyn = Hi - dah - lynn

Minfilia = Men - fill - eeah

Raubahn = Wow - bon

Gil = gil (like gills on a fish)

*EDIT*

Bahamut = Baa - ha - mutt

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Originally Posted by Vilhem

Hyur: hee-yoor

Elezen: Eh-leh-zen

Miqo'te: Mee-koh-teh

roegadyn: Roo-gah-deen

the "oe" in the Roegadyn naming schemes makes the "oo" sound, not "oh". It more or less follows Dutch pronunciations of things (ie. j makes i/y sound).

Merlwyb Bloefiswyn: Merl-veeb Bloo-fees-vin

my chara's last name "Dijkstra": Dike-strah

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You are right, I think. Besides the fact that oe is oo in Dutch it's also named in some wikis:
http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Ro...ng_Conventions
(Another one was chrysalis but it seems like it was taken down.)
I assume that since they say it in the wiki it was somewhere confirmed by a dev (not sure of course) but it would make most sense to me.
Furthermore Merlwyb's family name Bloefhiswyn in katakana is "buruu-fuisu-uin" (probably pronounced "bruufisuin"-->Bloofiswin).

So it might be

roo-guh-dinn (or roo-gah-dinn)

Merl-vibb (apparently w is like v, which corresponds to the German w. However this is not consistent with the Japanese spelling. But I think Japanese have no "v"-sound in general so they need to "paraphrase" it, do they?)

bloo-fiss-vinn

bloo-mearl (was the name of a roe in limsa).


I pronounce "-fhis-" and "-wyb" rather shortly.
Probably due to the English "fish" which is spoken in a short manner and "wyb" probably because of the German "Weib" which is a middle age term for woman or wife and sounds almost like "-wyb" (and is also pronounced rather quickly).

I always thought it was mee-coh-tee, too. :D

Sorry, I just love languages. I'm sorta being nerdy right now. ^^;

Yep I'm a super nerd when it comes to this stuff too ^^; I love studying languages and pronunciations and things like that

As for miqo'te, the last syllable is short e sound, not ee. ;)

google wont be a good help for every problem.... at least not with that one ...

Hyur
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Services For Guests Visiting Armenia ... O.O.

ERMERGERD HYURS EXIST IRL!!!!

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Originally Posted by Vilhem

Yep I'm a super nerd when it comes to this stuff too ^^; I love studying languages and pronunciations and things like that

As for miqo'te, the last syllable is short e sound, not ee. ;)

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Ah, sorry I didn't mean to make it sound like "mee-coh-tee" (with stretching the last syllable). I didn't know how to mark the "e" sound of the last syllable otherwise though. ^^
I tend to stretch the second syllable. So basically like "meh-coh-teh". (Would that be the correct periphrasis of the "e" sounds?)

Yep that's right. Common mistake is to read and say it like "quote", but there is no u in the spelling, so it would take on a k sound, so "coh".

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Originally Posted by Shougun

I defintely agree English has its fun for pronunciation but if your language has accents, or if it has any irregulars then at some point you will have to consider a true phonetic system and not call your language phonetic itself. At least thats what I was getting at.


"I laugh at you for trying to write phonetics" - and all I think is unless your language is 5 years or younger or has barely moved out of a small landmass then you'd also have inaccurate writing to pronunciation (time and movement lead to a lot of mutation).

(On su, from what I remember in class we literally said su for masu- although I looked into it more at appears only some people do lol google translator doesn't (while not the best source for pronunciation google has gotten a pretty good robotic voice))

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First of all, didn't mean to offend, although I knew it would have been easy to read the comment as offensive. Just said it makes me giggle, because one thing that may be obvious in a language may be not that obvious in others. Studying languages you learn to never take anything for granted.
(You also learn that there's no "superior language" or anything, so I wasn't really laughing down on you)

Anyway, no, Vilhem had it right, I'm Italian, but I do study a few languages (english, spanish, japanese, planning to take on french in the future) and lots of linguistics, so I'm not entirely ignorant of the matter :) It is true, (most) every language has developed variations or sounds that can't be expressed with standard letters, thus needing a group of letters to work together and symbolize this sound (nesso consonantico or nesso vocalico, I'm not sure how it's called in english).

What I meant to say anyway is that in other langauges, like italian or spanish, you can VERY EASILY guess the correct pronunciation without anybody saying it loud, and every native speaker will agree. Nobody here is puzzled over how to spell "Eorzea", for example.

And another thing, there's probably an easier way to explain pronunciations to others, even in english: make examples of other words with the same sounds. At least our teachers did this in my english classes when we met difficult sounds, and worked wonders.

For example. One thing I saw in this topic is La Noscea, which is clearly italian (not spanish, as spanish rarely uses the "sc" group like that; it's much more common in italian by far). Lemme try..

La as in "lack"
No as in "north"
sce as in "Sherlock Holmes"
a as in "amazing"

(stress on sce)

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Originally Posted by Wilan

First of all, didn't mean to offend, although I knew it would have been easy to read the comment as offensive. Just said it makes me giggle, because one thing that may be obvious in a language may be not that obvious in others. Studying languages you learn to never take anything for granted.
(You also learn that there's no "superior language" or anything, so I wasn't really laughing down on you)

Anyway, no, Vilhem had it right, I'm Italian, but I do study a few languages (english, spanish, japanese, planning to take on french in the future) and lots of linguistics, so I'm not entirely ignorant of the matter :) It is true, (most) every language has developed variations or sounds that can't be expressed with standard letters, thus needing a group of letters to work together and symbolize this sound (nesso consonantico or nesso vocalico, I'm not sure how it's called in english).

What I meant to say anyway is that in other langauges, like italian or spanish, you can VERY EASILY guess the correct pronunciation without anybody saying it loud, and every native speaker will agree. Nobody here is puzzled over how to spell "Eorzea", for example.

And another thing, there's probably an easier way to explain pronunciations to others, even in english: make examples of other words with the same sounds. At least our teachers did this in my english classes when we met difficult sounds, and worked wonders.

For example. One thing I saw in this topic is La Noscea, which is clearly italian (not spanish, as spanish rarely uses the "sc" group like that; it's much more common in italian by far). Lemme try..

La as in "lack"
No as in "north"
sce as in "Sherlock Holmes"
a as in "amazing"

(stress on sce)

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:D - Thanks for that.


To be honest I did think you were trying to say "Man look at you dummies" lol


I haven't "studied" languages (-minus 1 linguistic class) but I have an interest that has lead to me very peripheral understanding of other languages though mostly Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese (in order of my best to "all I remember is the alphabet and numbers" lol).. So thats why I was like what? No way..




For La Noscea it reminded me of Nausicaa Valley of the Wind so I just ended up going


La - Lack
No - No (:D) also like No in north
sc - sick [sik]
a -Aphrodite

(why did I ignore the e you say? Because! :D)

Urianger: (yu ree an gur) or ("Yuri-Anger")

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Originally Posted by Shougun

Lol cant get it exactly how I say it but check google pronunciations (click the speaker) :D

http://translate.google.com/#en/zh-T...Me%20co%20tay.


(like for Hyur, she wont make the H sound but rather just say H the letter.. so I put He, but.. no e for me)

Edit: woops had Mandarin speaker on for a second...

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english to finnish "hyur" = h'your. kinda how i think it should sound

Wulfthryth

Beaudefoin

2 npc merchants beside each other in Grid <.< second is kinda easy, but these two go together one got almost no vowels and the other got them all <.<

Loool, this is fun! :D

Here's my version:

http://translate.google.com/#en/zh-T...sa%20Lohminnsa.

I'm not really happy with the pronounciation of "Roegadyn" (I'd say the stretching is roo-gah-dinn) but I specially like how he says Lalafell, mi'qote or Merlwyb. xDD (Sorry, here goes the nerd derp again...)

And just for fun German pronounciations. :p

http://translate.google.com/#de/zh-T...imsa%20Lominsa.

Weird pronounciation of Bloefhiswyn. I'd say it's rather bloo-fiss-vin.

Just my guesses though. :)

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Originally Posted by Vilhem

Gee-sal greens

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Now I feel derpy, I called them....

Guy-yasha Greens for years >.>

Typical of a dragoon >.>;

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Originally Posted by Shougun

(why did I ignore the e you say? Because! :D)

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Oh, I saw this happening many times to me lol, when a word is just too complicated, there's a self defense mechanism of some sort that just lets my brain pick a possible spelling and stick with it. I haven't found any other explanation so far lol

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Originally Posted by Rau

Hume
Mithra
Elvaan
Galka
Tarutaru


come at me.

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Originally Posted by Lady

ROFL why did I not see that coming?

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I also lol'd at this! So great and I needed this laugh.

Hyur - H-yerr
Elezen - EL-eh-zhen
Lalafell- Lah-lah-FEHll
Miqo'te - Mih-KOHt -- (NO! No third syllable. I think the E is silent)
Roegadyn- ROW-gah-dinn

Bearing in mind that I'm English so my pronunciation of the English terms should be seen as canon ; )

Hyur: Hy-urgh (similar to the pronounciation of urgh)

Elezen: Eh-leh-zen

Miqo'te: Mee-koe-tay


Roegadyn: Dog-Head ... Jk Jk! Roe-ga-din



Referencing the Japanese versions doesn't work properly as some races have totally different names, for example;

Miqo'te is pretty much the same

ミ コ ッ テ
Mi Ko T Te Pronounced: Mee ko te


Hyur is different in Japanese - they call them Hyurans

Hi Yuu Ra N
ヒ ュー ラ ン Pronounced: He yoo ra n

:)

I say them as this:

Hyur: Slave Labor

Elezen: Front Line Fodder

Miqo'te: Sexy Master Race

Roegadyn: Large Slave Labor

Lalafell: Tasty Morsel

I know this doesn't make sense to pronounce it this way but:

Eorzea - Ez - oh- ree- ah

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Originally Posted by Stephen

Bearing in mind that I'm English so my pronunciation of the English terms should be seen as canon ; )

Hyur: Hy-urgh (similar to the pronounciation of urgh)

Elezen: Eh-leh-zen

Miqo'te: Mee-koe-tay


Roegadyn: Dog-Head ... Jk Jk! Roe-ga-din



Referencing the Japanese versions doesn't work properly as some races have totally different names, for example;

Miqo'te is pretty much the same

ミ コ ッ テ
Mi Ko T Te Pronounced: Mee ko te


Hyur is different in Japanese - they call them Hyurans

Hi Yuu Ra N
ヒ ュー ラ ン Pronounced: He yoo ra n

:)

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You're right in that there's the discrepancy with "hyur" and "hyuran", but all that really changes is the +an sound, so its not "totally" different.

Of note is how the JP spell things phonetically (to the best of their ability) based on the spellings used with roman letters.

Roegadyn: ru ga di n

Minfilia: Mi n fi ri a

Ascilia: A shi ri a

F'lhaminn: Fu * ra mi n

Thancred: Sa n ku re ddo

Yda: I da

Papalymo: Pa pa ri mo

etc >.>

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Originally Posted by Lady

I know this doesn't make sense to pronounce it this way but:

Eorzea - Ez - oh- ree- ah

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That is quite a stretch o.O;;

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Originally Posted by Vilhem

That is quite a stretch o.O;;

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Lol its not even a stretch its completely WRONG. But I'm stuck saying it that way in my head.

Try easing into it like this:

say "A" as in long sound, as in "pray"

then say "or"

then "zee"

then "ah!" as if you just had a good thought lol.

With difficult words that don't sound native to you, best thing to do is break them up and ease into them like that. Say them slow, monotone, then ease into saying it faster until you master it. I taught a good many people at my old job how to get down proper Spanish pronunciations this way xD

Is that Eorzea ? I always say it A- (like hay) -or -zea (like Say) -ah. But that's just me :)

Z as a letter being pronounced zed.

"zee" is easier to roll into for monolingual folks, but "zeh" is acceptable too.

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Originally Posted by Vilhem

Try easing into it like this:

say "A" as in long sound, as in "pray"

then say "or"

then "zee"

then "ah!" as if you just had a good thought lol.

With difficult words that don't sound native to you, best thing to do is break them up and ease into them like that. Say them slow, monotone, then ease into saying it faster until you master it. I taught a good many people at my old job how to get down proper Spanish pronunciations this way xD

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Printing your post out and pinning it on my cubicle, figure after a week of seeing it, itll come natural to say it right.

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Originally Posted by Vilhem

Try easing into it like this:

say "A" as in long sound, as in "pray"

then say "or"

then "zee"

then "ah!" as if you just had a good thought lol.

With difficult words that don't sound native to you, best thing to do is break them up and ease into them like that. Say them slow, monotone, then ease into saying it faster until you master it. I taught a good many people at my old job how to get down proper Spanish pronunciations this way xD

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Ah - or - zee ah...


ok so like A Orange Zebra!!!


Since we were talking about languages before I wanted to add - love the letter based phonetics that we can make so many weird sounds lol


You where showing Japanese of the English equivalent, Hanbāgā (ハンバーガー)-> Hamburger, getting a close phonetic is pretty much impossible with that kind of Asian base language (Like Chinese). However put in some accent marks in English (or other relating letter bases (we are a big family of languages :D)) and you can get pretty dang close lol. Of course the Asian languages have their benefits too (like 1-3 compact images per whole meaning (Kanji/Chinese) vs 2++ drifting images per word)

Its too bad we dont have a larger acceptance of accent marks in English - a lot of borrowed words would be said closer to the original with tiny tweaks, not only sounding more worldly of a language it'd also be more consistent for pronunciation lol.

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Originally Posted by Rau

Hume
Mithra
Elvaan
Galka
Tarutaru


come at me.

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Thread win.

I've always heard Eorzea pronounced Or-Zay-uh so that's how I say it.

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Originally Posted by Shougun

Ah - or - zee ah...

Since we were talking about languages before I wanted to add - love the letter based phonetics that we can make so many weird sounds lol


You where showing Japanese of the English equivalent, Hanbāgā (ハンバーガー)-> Hamburger, getting a close phonetic is pretty much impossible with that kind of Asian base language (Like Chinese). However put in some accent marks in English (or other relating letter bases (we are a big family of languages :D)) and you can get pretty dang close lol. Of course the Asian languages have their benefits too (like 1-3 compact images per whole meaning (Kanji/Chinese) vs 2++ drifting images per word)

Its too bad we dont have a larger acceptance of accent marks in English - a lot of borrowed words would be said closer to the original with tiny tweaks, not only sounding more worldly of a language it'd also be more consistent for pronunciation lol.

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Yeah, accents would go a long way in helping with some pronunciations, like we have in English "read" as in "I will read this book", and then we have past tense "I read that book". Then you say, "I like the color red". The last two sound the same, but a foreigner will be like "wtf?! which one do I write?" I dealt with a lot of this at my old job, and sometimes we just had to chalk it up to memorization lol [ I worked as an ESL/Spanish Tutor/Interpreter at my old university while I was doing my undergrad btw >.> ] It was especially funny to hear them say "shit" of paper, instead of "sheet", since they are trying to engrain their minds not to fall back on "ee" so much XD.

It's interesting how you mention Hanbāgā (ハンバーガー)... the "n" can change to "m", depending on the consonant that comes after it. In this case, you would actually hear "hambaga" because the b, or a p, will change that sound to "m". It's the same with other, similar words, like パソコン "pa so con" (persocom), you would hear it "pa so com", because it is actually an abbreviation of the words パーソナルコンピュータ "pa-so na ru ko m pyu-ta" (personal computer).

This rule also exists in Spanish, albeit slightly different. Our "b" and "v" sound nearly identical in spoken language, but when the b follows m, it makes a harder b sound. "Coh-lom-bee-ah" instead of "Coh-lom-vee-ah" (Colombia) if that makes sense lol.

/nerd ><;;

The devs have given a few posts on how to correctly pronounce things, it would be nice if the OP updated the first post with them. The only applicable one to race names I know of is Roegadyn. Hopefully other people know if there's more.
Roegadyn: Roo-Gah-Deen (long ooh and ee, not roh-ga-din)
ルガディン: Ru-Ga-Deen. (The Japanese pronunciation enforces the dev post below)

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Originally Posted by Fernehalwes

From the depths of the Seven Hells, a post rises once more to wreak havoc on the Localization forums. (cue dramatic riff)

When pronouncing Roegadyn names, you can, for the most part, follow the rules of English. There are, however, some exceptions, so I'll cover a few of those here.

Vowels:

AE: Somewhere between the 'e' in 'egg' and the 'ai' in 'air' depending on the consonant that follows it
Aerg (ambitious) would be pronounced like 'airg'
Aent (duck) would be closer to 'ent' (rhymes with 'sent')

Aergaent (ambitious duck)

Y: A long 'e' such as the 'ea' in 'eat' or the first 'e' in 'Steve'
Alyr (alder) would be pronounced 'ah-leer'
Blyss (blossom) would be pronounced like 'bleece' (rhymes with 'fleece')

Alyrblyss (alder blossom)

OE: An 'ooh' sound such as the 'ue' in 'blue' and the 'oo' in 'I pity the foo'
Broen (brown) would be pronounced 'broon' (like 'broom')
Loef (leaf) would be 'loof' (rhymes with 'goof')

Broenloef (brown leaf)

Consonants:

PF: Closer to an F than a P
Pfym (five) would be 'fim' (rhymes with 'slim')
Skapf (sheep) would be 'skaff' (rhymes with 'staff')

Pfymskapf (five sheep)

TH: More like a hard 't' than a soft 'th'
Thosin (grey) would be 'toe-sin'
Sthal (steel) would be 'stall'

Thosinsthall (grey steel)

W: A 'v' sound rather than a soft 'w'
Wyzn (white) would sound like 'vee-zin' (thanks Viridiana!)
Wilf (wolf) would sound like 'vilf' (rhymes with 'filth')

Wyznwilf (white wolf)

G: Almost always hard (like the 'g' in 'guilt' but not the 'g' in 'page')
The 'gin' in Swygyn (silent) would be NOT be pronounced like the drink 'gin' but like the 'gin' in 'begin'
Agat (amber) would be 'ah-got'

Swygynagat (silent amber)

J: A 'y' sound like in 'year' and 'yummy'
Jungh (young) would be pronounced 'yoong'

H: When paired with a vowel (before or after), almost always silent
Smhid (smith) would be pronounced 'smid' (rhymes with 'kid')

Junghsmhid (young smith)


Like I mentioned before, we hope to make available a Roegadyn dictionary and pronunciation guide sometime before the launch of 2.0. Until then, I hope this helps clear things up somewhat. :)

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My personal pronunciations on the other names, with the original Japanese as indicators on correct English pronunciations. (Tip: you can hear the Japanese words through Google translate. It's pretty accurate.)

-Hyuran: Hyur-ran, rhymes with human. ヒューラン: Hyoo-Ran
Hyur: Hee-Yur in one syllable, rhymes with slur.

-Lalafell: lah-lah-fell. ララフェル: La-La-Fe-Ru

-Elezen: Eh-Leh-Zen. エレゼン: Eh-Leh-Zen.
The Japanese pronounce the first syllable as "Eh" resulting in the word falling off your lips more gracefully or "elvish-like." However, El-Leh-Zen with a harder L at the beginning is more comfortable in English (like Elvish: El-Vish), so that works too until we get a dev to differentiate.

-Miqo'te: Mi-Koht-Te ミコッテ: Mi-Ko-Tte
The ' here indicates not only a harder, double t but a half-beat pause in Japanese. (Listen in Google translate). I think sounding out Mi-Koht-Te rather than Mi-Ko-Tte will help. (Sound out the T at the end of the second syllable instead of just the beginning of the third.)

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Some other interesting pronunciations based on dev posts:
-Merlwyb Bloefhiswyn: Murhl-Veeb Bloo-Fis-Veen
-Peiste: Peace-Tuh (Japanese sounds more like "Paste")
-Goobbue: Goo-Boo
-Louisoux: no dev post as far as I know, but Japanese is ルイゾワ: Ru-Ee-Zoh-Ah. Indicates the French pronunciation of Loo-Ee-Swa
-Leve/Levequest: Leave or Leave-Quest (like in "I'm leaving" not "lev" as in lever).
-Eorzea: no dev post but Japanese is エオルゼア Eh-Oh-Ru-Zeh-Ah. English would be Aay-Or-Zeh-Ah, not Or-Zay-Uh
I think Vilhem's post breaks it up nicely:

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Originally Posted by Vilhem

Try easing into it like this:

say "A" as in long sound, as in "pray"

then say "or"

then "zee"

then "ah!" as if you just had a good thought lol.

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Originally Posted by Fernehalwes

Hello all!

As you all know, FINAL FANTASY XIV is a veritable cornucopia when it comes to oddly spelled words (I believe, 'keyboard mashing' was a colorful term one player used). In the past, there have been multiple questions on how to pronounce certain names, and I've tried to cover a few of those in Localization posts. However, after discussing it with my fellow voidsent peers, we've decided that it is high-time that something a bit more comprehensive be introduced, especially with ARR and a whole new batch of players on their way.

Over the next few months, we hope to provide you all with some pronunciation guides for NPC, place, monster, and item names. If possible, I'd also like to get up some actual audio files, but if that proves impossible, we'll at least get some IPA action in there.

If you have any words we'd like to cover, use this thread as a place to list them up.

Thanks!

P.S. (Peiste is an Irish word for 'serpent' and to the best of my knowledge is pronounced roughly 'peace-tuh'. It is interesting to note that the Japanese rendering of the word comes out sounding like 'paste')

P.S.S. (Goobbue is, in fact, pronounced 'goo-boo,' as Teakwood mentioned.)

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Originally Posted by Fernehalwes

I'll cover this one in the future as well, but I wanted to reply right away because leve is such a major term.

Here on the team, we've been pronouncing the word 'leave'. In fact, 'leve' is an archaic spelling of the word 'leave' that was used between 13th and 16th centuries.

Why look! Here's an example from Fitzherbert's The Book of Husbandry (1523)

"Seldom doth the housbande thryve withoute the leve of his wyfe."

Preach it Fitzherbert!

The reason behind using this word in the first place can be seen here in the in-game explanation given by leve distributors:

"In a city as large as this one, there will always be those who are looking for someone willing to assist them with their troubles. Instead of doing the searching on their own, they often come to us. We, in turn, document their petitions and then offer them to our clientele―fine men and women such as yourself. These tasks are what we like to call "levequests," and if someone happens to be interested in accepting one, we present them with a guildleve that is used in conjunction with the quest. Guildleves are, in effect, passes which grant their bearers [B][COLOR="red"]

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Originally Posted by Vilhem

You're right in that there's the discrepancy with "hyur" and "hyuran", but all that really changes is the +an sound, so its not "totally" different.

Of note is how the JP spell things phonetically (to the best of their ability) based on the spellings used with roman letters.

Roegadyn: ru ga di n

Minfilia: Mi n fi ri a

Ascilia: A shi ri a

F'lhaminn: Fu * ra mi n

Thancred: Sa n ku re ddo

Yda: I da

Papalymo: Pa pa ri mo

etc >.>



That is quite a stretch o.O;;

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To some extent yes, but that's generally with foreign words. They have their own word for human, but since they're translating words with Katakana to have them sound a bit 'mysterious' they'd probably have gone with:

Hi yuu ma n


But either way it's all good, BRING ON THE BETA !!!