Quote Originally Posted by Jinketsu View Post
You could say it's Bla-ise Lalla-ise. Given much of the Lalafell language isn't as strict in its phonetics in present day Eorzea, you can still pronounce it AS one syllable (two for surname) and still meet the conventional properties of Lalafellian lore!
In Japanese they don't have what we know as a long "A" as one syllable. It's the blending of E (pronounced "eh") and I (pronounced "ih" or "ee"), so Ei results in a long A sound, even though it counts as two syllables.

Truth be told, in Katakana your name would be "Bu-Le-I-Zu La-Le-I-Zu", or "Buleizu Laleizu", where "Bule" and "Lale" are A and C respectively, and Izu is B. You could say that the name was poorly transliterated from its original form by an ignorant Elezen or Hyur.

By the way, my fellow Americans, I don't expect you to learn any Eastern languages, but don't be ignorant of their pronunciations. The vowels are really not that hard. It's thanks to ignorance that people pronounce "Hyundai" as "Hundy".