Comments on: How to Pronounce Indian Names

By: Marlese

Marlese — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:03:21 +0000

Based on some of the comments I’m a bit confused. How would one pronounce the name Dilen?

By: martha

martha — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 12:32:42 +0000

In my experience, “a” is rarely pronounced “ah” and almost always pronounced “uh”, Ravi is pronounced Abeshek is pronounced UH beh SHAKE

By: Rechal

Rechal — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:56:23 +0000

Just some helpful hints (I study Hindi – the national language of India):

The “a” in Indian names is either pronounced “ah”, like David mentioned, or “uh” (like in “up”). It’s not always easy to know which sound it should be when written in English (the Hindi script specifies).

“e” is pronounced like “ay” as in “hay”

“i” can either be pronounced short or long (as in “pit” or “Pete) sometimes the long sound is spelled “ee” in names, as well.

Other than that, everything else already written looks great!

By: Pronunciation | J and B – India

Pronunciation | J and B – India — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:22:07 +0000

[...] to share good work written by other bloggers, and found David Christiansen’s article “How to Pronounce Indian Names” to be a great introduction for a complete newbie. Granted, it doesn’t get into some of [...]

By: Mon

Mon — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:29:17 +0000

Hey,

I really appreciate all your efforts in putting together this thread! Kudos to all of you!

Monika – Indian easy name though!

By: m

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:49:44 +0000

un-ee-rood
(d is the dh sound)

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:43:13 +0000

How would you pronounce Anirudh?

By: Pat Eldred

Pat Eldred — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:54:53 +0000

I am teaching the novel Nectar in a Sieve and am curious about the pronunciation and stress of syllables in the name of the main character – Rukmani. Thanks.

Pat

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:39:55 +0000

How do you pronounce Muwafaq? It means successful.
- Michael

By: Naomi Ningishzidda

Naomi Ningishzidda — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:42:51 +0000

In the digital arts we have a sort of fan club dedicated to one of the developers of Adobe Photoshop because he has been on the credits forever and his name is INCREDIBLE: Seetharaman Narayanan. Thank you for the article it was very refreshing and respectful of Indian names.