Pronounciations

[Lady]

So lets talk pronounciation. I'm just going to go over the races, but anything else that needs clarification on pronouncing, please feel free to add.

Hyur - ha-year - pronounced as one syllable
Elezen - EL-eh-zhen
Lalafell- Lah-Lah-Fehll
(now the fun ones)
Miqo'te - Meh-CO-tay
Roegadyn- Row-gah-DINN

Anyway thats how I say them in my head, anyone who has the correct pronouncation feel free to correct me ^_^ Or if you say them different, give me your interpretation.

Wish I would have had a thread like this while playing FFXI, you don't even want to know how I pronounced Konschtat Highlands

[Shougun]

I really dont remember the dictionary spelling style / IPA so here is my crappy English phonetic lol


Hyur - H sound, like in he and here H-your
Elezen - E-lee-zhen
Lalafell - Lawl-ah-fell
Miqo'te - Mi (me)-co-tay
Roegadyn - I know I say this one wrong but thats bcause I forget the spelling all the time lol Row-ged (like jed but with g)-rinn

[Rau]

Hume
Mithra
Elvaan
Galka
Tarutaru


come at me.

[Lady]

Hume
Mithra
Elvaan
Galka
Tarutaru


come at me.

ROFL why did I not see that coming?

[Rahsch]

Hyur - He-yer
Elezen - El-E-zhen
Lalafell- Lah-Lah-Fell
Miqo'te - Me-ko-tae
Roegadyn- Row-gah-din

[Obsy]

I try to make Hyur sound as foreign as possible because I feel like I'm being insensitive to the mentally challenged if anyone heard me say, "hhh-YERRRR". So I go for [ʰ-YOOR].
Lalafell is pretty straight forward, [LA-la-fehl]
Elezen - [EL-eh-zehn]
Miqo'te - [MEE-koh-teh]
Roegadyn - [RO-guh-deen]/[RO-guh-dinn]

I suppose in hindsight, I tend to throw myself at the first syllable and then let the rest just kinda trail out.

Also, Konschtat for me was [KHAN-shtat]
....Highlands is [HWARGFLOOFPERSCOOPITY-lajoogles]

[Phe]

i just looked up the japanese pronounciation and it seems like the apostrophe from Miqo'te
makes the "o" short and a double tt:

ミコッテ - Mi-Ko-t-te

[Shougun]

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

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...

[Myranda]

Pretty much the same as OP, but for Miqo'te I do as many others seem to and start with a 'me' sound instead of 'meh', the way most languages pronounce their vowels. Usually when I want to be sure, the Japanese katakana version of the name will clue me in to the way it was intended.

[edit]
Looks like Phe beat me to the Japanese tip while I was typing mine. But yeah, the apostrophe serves as a stop, resulting in that kind of double consonant sound.

i just looked up the japanese pronounciation and it seems like the apostrophe from Miqo'te
makes the "o" short and a double tt:

ミコッテ - Mi-Ko-t-te

[/edit]

As long as we're sharing bad pronunciation stories though, I knew someone that said Jeuno from XI as 'juu-EH-no'.... just... wrong (I always figured it as similar to Juneau, Alaksa). Then again he also though the word chaos is pronounced as 'cha-chos' somehow....

[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