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. ^^;