Pronunciations

[TacoTaru]

Pso'Xja = So Ja
Xzomit = Zomit
Temple of Uggalepih = Temple of Ugly Pig
Yovra = Yah - Vruh
Aern = Air - N
Phuabo = Fwah - Boh
Hpemde = H - Pem - Dee (I know this isn't anywhere near correct but it's how I say it)
Hu'Xzoi = Huh - Zoy
Ru'Hmet = Roo - Met
Al'Taieu = Al - To - Ee
Rabao = Ra - Ba - Oh
Sauromugue = Saw - Row - Myoog
Qufim = Kwih - Fim
Bhaflau = Baf - Laow
Xolotl = Zoh - Lot - Uhl
Bostanieux Oubliette = Boss - Tan - Nyuh Ooh - Blee - Et
Ru'Avitau = Roo - Av - Ih - Taw
Aphmau = Aff - M - Ow
Eald'Narche = Eld - Narsh
Konschtat Highlands = Konsh - Tat Highlands
Diabolos = Die - Ah - Bow - Los
Teleport-Mea = Teleport - Mee - Ah
Beadeaux = Buh - Doh
Jeuno = Jew - No
Bastok = Bass - Tock
Gjallarhorn = Gya - Lar - Horn
Seiryu = Say - Ryu
Tavnazia = Tav - Nah - Zee - Uh
Aspir = Ass - Peer
Aegishjalmr = Ay - Gish - Jal - Muhr
Misareaux = Miz - Uh - Row

^ This for the most part. Bolded my fixes.

[Ruiner]

I think our Bhaflau pronunciations are actually the same, I just couldn't think of how to put it into words.

[TacoTaru]

San d'Oria is one that confused me when I heard the first Rocl Talk. Everyone I know says:

San-Door-E-Uh

I believe on ther they said:

San-Door-Ee-Ah with inflection bringing the Ee part back up in pitch whereas the later just goes progressively down.

.....that's harder to explain than I thought >_>

[Valyana]

Temple of Uggawugga

[Lilswitche]

Oh oh oh! Let's revisit sky drops!

Hi-dates or Hai-dah-tés
Kotes or Ko-tés
Sun-ate or Su-nah-té

[Kohan]

San d'Oria is one that confused me when I heard the first Rocl Talk. Everyone I know says:

San-Door-E-Uh

I believe on ther they said:

San-Door-Ee-Ah with inflection bringing the Ee part back up in pitch whereas the later just goes progressively down.

.....that's harder to explain than I thought >_>

Keeping with the whole French theme, the name of the town is basically "San de Oria" before the rules of the language are employed. Because "Oria" begins with a vowel, de is shortened to d' in writing, but its pronunciation does not change.

So, it would be pronounced "SAHN-deh-OR-EEA." French is also a "fast language," so there shouldn't be any pauses in there, not even for the spaces.

[TacoTaru]

Oh oh oh! Let's revisit sky drops!

Hi-dates or Hai-dah-tés
Kotes or Ko-tés
Sun-ate or Su-nah-té

Hai-dah-tay
Kote
Sue-neh-ah-tay

[ZhanAsura]

Temple of Uggawugga

Temple of Ugglyboogly

Hu-xuz-oi

Fort Nigero-bigero





I used to try and say shit exact, but the slang (and stupidity) on vent has caught up with me, now I'm saying the above as they're typed among other ridiculous names.

[Silenka]

My old sky ls everyone used to call Byakko 'beeyakoo'

it drove me mental, I ranted about it on vent every goddamn time we killed him

[deadpooled]

temple of uglypuppies
garbage shittyhell
dumbfucks tower

more intreged how ppl pronounce these :-

Cwn Annwn
Cwn Cyrff
Gwyn Ap Knudd (though in Welsh there is no letter K so s/e screwed up a little there

[Wizerd]

Anyone basing their pronounciations on how the Japanese say things is doing it wrong. You have to keep in mind where the name is from, and prononuce it their way.

For example, you pronounce "eaux" in Beadeaux as "oh".

Another example is that while they may say "Bastook" in the starting video, the spelling is quite clearly Bastok, simply how it looks there. "Bass-tock". We speak English, and as far as we know, Bastok is not based off of anything outside of FFXI specifically. Therefore, you should use the language you speak to come up with its pronounciation. That's how I see it anyway.

As for Arrapago, "Ah-RAPP-ah-goh" doesn't work because there are 2 R's in the name. I only ever say this when I'm making fun of Arrapago.

As for how I pronounce stuff:

Bass-tock
Sann-dohr-ee-ah
Joo-noh
Zom-it
Fwah-boh
Ug-gah-lepp-ee
Sehr-yoo (with a slight roll on the R)
Byah-Koh
Ra-bow

I don't feel like doing more.

[Leolai]

Just a quick note here as ppl seems to pronunce Gjallarhorn in a wierd manner. (and everytime I hear it I get a lil ticked off.. )

In nordic languages the G is silent is a Gj-construction (and Gjallarhorn is from norse mythology) so the correct pronunciation is Jallarhorn.

[Apelila]

Aegishjalmr = Ass jamer
Uleguerand Range = Ugly Range
Temple of Uggalepih = Temple of ugg a bee
Vrtra = Fucking dragon
Ridill = Riddle (I know its probably Ry-dell, but that sounds stupid to me)

What about Dynamis? Huh? My boyfriend constantly says it like DIE-namis(hard DIE) and I say die-nuh-mis.

[Howard Roark]

some lulz on vent produced the fact that one of our members says kerr-ins kweeses, as opposed to keer-ins or kwisses (I know there's no such item but he pronounced both wrong so we made an item up)

also, for xzomit I say ig-zomm-it even though I know I'm being lazy -- I hadn't considered the xz aztec sound although this seems correct

the funny thing is, my brother plays this game and sometimes I have no idea what he is talking about when he says stuff wrong

like boobarumi (boo-BOO-ruh-moo)

[Howard Roark]

oh and for some reason, when this one dude Longarm says Honibami (some blunt damage katana that he uses on faith or whatever) it cracks me up

[Liquidedust]

Just a quick note here as ppl seems to pronunce Gjallarhorn in a wierd manner. (and everytime I hear it I get a lil ticked off.. )

In nordic languages the G is silent is a Gj-construction (and Gjallarhorn is from norse mythology) so the correct pronunciation is Jallarhorn.

Technically it is semi-silent to make it even worse for people with english as their mother-tounge. (my last name is Ljung so try explain the diff between Jung and Ljung for a brit or american and make them understand it . . .).

But yeah it is (impled G)JallARR-hoorn.

Aegishjalmr = Ass jamer
Uleguerand Range = Ugly Range
Temple of Uggalepih = Temple of ugg a bee
Vrtra = Fucking dragon
Ridill = Riddle (I know its probably Ry-dell, but that sounds stupid to me)

What about Dynamis? Huh? My boyfriend constantly says it like DIE-namis(hard DIE) and I say die-nuh-mis.

Ridill = RIDD-ILL actually
Dynamis is like DY-NA-MISS (like Dynamic but replace the the c with a s)

[Freysi]

Just a quick note here as ppl seems to pronunce Gjallarhorn in a wierd manner. (and everytime I hear it I get a lil ticked off.. )

In nordic languages the G is silent is a Gj-construction (and Gjallarhorn is from norse mythology) so the correct pronunciation is Jallarhorn.

Nope. I'm Icelandic, and we still speak with the old old norse accent. The 'G' is hard.

Gjallarhorn = gya-llarr-horn

It's difficult to write that phoenetically because there are several sounds there that are specific to old norse. The double 'L' is a closed sound, so make the normal english 'L' sound but click both sides of your tongue while keeping the tip of your tongue behind your teeth. The final 'N' sound in "horn" is not vocalized like the english 'N'. Instead it is made with a glottal closing of the passageway to the nose, and then an exhalation through the nose with a closed mouth. The 'R's are all rolled heavily.

Ægishjálmur = Aee-yis-hya-ool-mur

Here the 'g' is soft but not silent, very similar to the 'y' sound in "'year". The 'á' sound is shown crossing the 2 syllables "hya" and "ool", it is a "double-sound" which sounds like "ah-oooh" but spoken quickly. The 'r' at the end is rolled.

Riðill = Ri-thill

The 'th' here is voiced, like in "this". The double 'L' at the end is the same sound as described above. The closest approximation is a "tl" sound in English. Fun fact, "Riðill" actuall means "Fucker", as in "something that fucks" rather than a derogatory term.

Enough for now, maybe I'll try to record myself pronouncing these correctly, it's pretty hard to describe phoenetically without have a true linguistic's vocabulary.

[Secksi]

This thread reminds me of that fucking amazing utsusemi sound out that was posted about 3-4 years ago.

[Silenka]

This thread reminds me of that fucking amazing utsusemi sound out that was posted about 3-4 years ago.

Aw, I would like to see that.

What's so hard about utsusemi?

ooh - tsuuu - seeehh meeeee

[Liquidedust]

Nope. I'm Icelandic, and we still speak with the old old norse accent. The 'G' is hard.

Gjallarhorn = gya-llarr-horn

It's difficult to write that phoenetically because there are several sounds there that are specific to old norse. The double 'L' is a closed sound, so make the normal english 'L' sound but click both sides of your tongue while keeping the tip of your tongue behind your teeth. The final 'N' sound in "horn" is not vocalized like the english 'N'. Instead it is made with a glottal closing of the passageway to the nose, and then an exhalation through the nose with a closed mouth. The 'R's are all rolled heavily.

Ægishjálmur = Aee-yis-hya-ool-mur

Here the 'g' is soft but not silent, very similar to the 'y' sound in "'year". The 'á' sound is shown crossing the 2 syllables "hya" and "ool", it is a "double-sound" which sounds like "ah-oooh" but spoken quickly. The 'r' at the end is rolled.

Riðill = Ri-thill

The 'th' here is voiced, like in "this". The double 'L' at the end is the same sound as described above. The closest approximation is a "tl" sound in English. Fun fact, "Riðill" actuall means "Fucker", as in "something that fucks" rather than a derogatory term.

Enough for now, maybe I'll try to record myself pronouncing these correctly, it's pretty hard to describe phoenetically without have a true linguistic's vocabulary.

The so called "semi-silent" letter is a bastard child (no offense meant) we still use in swedish that do comes from the old norse accent. Basically we don't say the letter out loud but change the pronounciation of the vowels following it as if we would have.

Basically the distinction in my last name Ljung and Jung are pronounced quite diffrently, and so would Jallar and Gjallar be.

Edit: Wouldn't the closest pronounciation of Gjall be GY-JALL instead of GYA-LL(ARR)?