Pronounciations

[yoshikwalla]

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

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)

[Shougun]

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

You'd love Iceland. Eyjafjallajökull


google it

[Vilhem]

Lol, people say that about my last name too

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).

[Vilhem]

You'd love Iceland. Eyjafjallajökull


google it

Bless you.

[yoshikwalla]

Eyjafjallajökull

Gesundheit.

[Keith_Dragoon]

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.

[Vilhem]

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

one more, just for you Keith

Dragoon: loo-zer

[Yrusama]

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

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

[Lucke]

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

[Loggos]

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

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.

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