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> Finally we ended up with Riya for my daughter (which is pronounced the same as the English name Rhea) and Aarav for my son, which is pronounced the same as tw
by cco 6y ago
> Finally we ended up with Riya for my daughter (which is pronounced the same as the English name Rhea) and Aarav for my son, which is pronounced the same as two of the most common English words, "are" and "of."
Native English speaker from the Pacific Northwest, I would pronounce those "Ri-yuh" and "Are-rov"(I think your intended pronunciation) or maybe "A-rav", depends upon whether I knew they were of Indian decent, i.e. Rohan is "Roe-hon" not "Roe-han".
Forgive my "colloquial" phonetic annotation, I don't know how to do it properly.
- Nightshaxx 6y agoI know a Riya whose name sounds like Ri-yuh, so I don't think you are completely wrong.
- nemetroid 6y agoIsn't "Ri-yuh" how you'd pronounce "Rhea"?
- BurningFrog 6y agoI think they're saying the names are easy to pronounce once you've heard them. They contain no non english sounds or tongue twisters. I agree pronunciation is not 100% obvious from the spelling.
- azernik 6y ago"Of" is actually pronounced with a "v" phoneme, despite the spelling.
- markdown 6y ago"A A Rav" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw