How do you pronounce....

[DrSkull]

I'm curious about how people pronounce "Solomani" and "Vilani"

Being a Latin teacher, I've always pronounced the final "i" like an English long "e"--i.e., it rhymes with "pea" or "me".

Does everyone else pronounce them that way, or do you make them rhyme with "sky"?

 

[Solo]

Yep. with an "ee" sound. But, sometimes I pronounce Solomani with a hard i when referring to a specific person. (shrugs) Don't know why.

-S.

 

[phydaux]

You're exactly right. It's supposed to be romanesque.

 

[greymouse]

I rhyme the Solomani on "me" and accentuate on "ma" - soloMAni...
I pronounce the Vilani something like "Weelanee" with the a like in "father" (I am a german native speaker - thats also my usual excuse for my spelling and grammar faults ;o) )

 

[Spacehand Arioch]

I've heard Vilani pronouned like Bilani. The V is pronounced hard and sounds like a B.
The end pronounced with a eee sound.
phonic: Bee lan ee.

 

[MichaelL65]

Originally posted by Spacehand Arioch:
I've heard Vilani pronouned like Bilani. The V is pronounced hard and sounds like a B.
The end pronounced with a eee sound.
phonic: Bee lan ee.

My recolection is that this is the correct pronunciation. Something about there not being an equivelant of the letter "V" in the Vilani alphabet.

First contact with Vilani by Earthlings was made by some ethnic group whose language uses the letter V where English uses a B (Russians maybe?). Not sure how acurate that story is but I remember seeing that somewhere.

 

[Nearside]

Bee-lan-ee? Really? That's fascinating... any chance of a canon answer on this?

 

[Spacehand Arioch]

I think the info MichaelL65 was refering to can be found in the MT Vilani and Vargr booklet.
(I don't have mine with me, can't confirm) .

 

[Liam Devlin]

Soll-Oh Mahn-ee'
Vill-ahn-ee

learnt that thar in Them CT dayz we did, yasuh.

 

[GypsyComet]

solo-MON-ee
vih-LAWN-ee

though the actual bilandin pronunciation does occasionally get heard around here...