What's the correct way?

So, I am curious as to how the names of the races are pronounced. I am also curious about the adjectival forms of the races. Since these words aren't exactly English, I am unsure what to say and how to say them.

For example,

Hyur: How do you pronounce this? Hear? H-you-r?
And how is Hyuran pronounced? (Hyur)-ran? (Hyur)-run?

Lalafell: This should be easy enough. Lala-fell?
And Lalafellin is Lala-fell-in

What about the others? I have no idea how to pronounce Miqo'te and what their adjectival form is. Roegadyn too.

Anyone have any idea?

The only one I've never been completely sure about was Miqo'te. I could never decide it it's "Me-Coat" or "Me-Co-Tay".

The others I just pronounce:
Hyur - "He-Yur"
Lalafell- "La-La-Fell"
Roegadyn- "Ro-Ga-Den"

I may be way off, but that's what I've been saying for over a year now haha.

I always thought the ' in Miquo'te indicated a breath/break, so I've pronounced it Me-Ko-Tay

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Originally Posted by Chevrefoil

I always thought the ' in Miquo'te indicated a breath/break, so I've pronounced it Me-Ko-Tay

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That sounds right to me as well, but after hearing it every possible way spoken over voice chat, I never could be certain! I've even heard it as "Me-Kwo-Tay" and I KNEW that couldn't be right haha.

I've always said Me-co-tay.

Please check the lore forum section, all of this is in there at the top in the stickies

Yep, they tend to cover this sort of thing a lot in the lore section. I am sure you will find your answer in there.

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Originally Posted by ObeiKinstar

Please check the lore forum section, all of this is in there at the top in the stickies

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They aren't in the stickies. The stickies only cover what to name characters and not how to pronounce the races themselves.

i have always been under the assumption that Hyur was pronounced "Hi-Yur" and that Hyuran, would be "Hi-yur-ran"

I'm assuming Quo = Kwo? :3

It's hard to express how things are pronounced without writing everything phonetically.

I'm assuming the Qu in Miquo'te is like that in spanish or french (quelle blague!) rather than in english (quotation = Kwo-tay-shun). That may or may not be true, but I suspect it is. I'm usually quite good at pronunciation thanks to studying four languages (two, english and french to fluency) and linguistics where we had to write out words using the phonetic alphabet and studied the differences between accents. ' is usually a breath sound or break (except in some languages that vary intonation already and in complicated ways - such as english or chinese esp.). Since the race names are coming originally from Japanese, Japanese has fairly consistent intonation...which is usually an accent issue for native english speakers, since is rather hard for us to NOT vary intonation based on word placement/phonetics.


Example --
Mizuno Ami -- should technically be pronounced, without break and with same intonation on each syllable, as 'me-zu-no-ah-me', but you will find most english speakers say 'me-ZU-no (breath) AH-me'.

Taking common language conventions,

Roegadyn - roh-gay-din (assuming here that 'a' is long. If was short a, would be roh-ga-din. Roh-gay-din sounds more natural to me though and there's more precedence for a long 'a' in a middle syllable than a short 'a'.)
Hyur - hy-yur or hyur, depends on whether you make the word two syllables or one. Hyu is not a true sound in english so we may more naturally say 'hy-yur' and 'hy-yur-an' rather than hyur and hyur-an
Lalafel - la-la-fell (important NOT to intonate on 2nd syllable which will be natural to most english speakers. it's la-la-fel, not la-LA-fel)
Elezen - ay-lay-zen or eh-leh-zen, depending on whether or not you choose a long or short 'e' sound. Or you could even vary it - 'eh-lay-zen' - and since most elezen wording favors french pronunciations, I tend to favor 'ay-leh-zen' as if there was an accent aigu on the first e.

There will be some variation depending on whether you favor english-style intonation or japanese.