Babel. How is it pronounced?
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Actually, it's not an Arabic word; it's Hebrew, specifically, the Hebrew way of rendering the name we call "Babylon" .   It is found repeatedly in the Old Testament, though oddly ONLY in the story of the "tower of Babel [Babylon]" do translations render it as "Babel".\n\nOne way to pronounce it is simply like "Babylon" with the ending dropped, that is, so that it sound just like the English word "babble".   That has always seemed quite appropriate, since the Hebrew writer makes fun of the name and its meaning.  Babylonians said the name of their city (Bab-ilu) meant "gate of god".   This story in Genesis is full of wordplays, and the last of them plays "babel" off against Hebrew "balal" meaning "to confuse" to tell of how their languages were confused there (and probably to make fun of those odd-sounding Babylonians).\n\nThe other acceptable pronunciation --though it kills the English pun-- is to make the a long :"BAY-b'l" (rhymes with "Abel" and "able")\n\n\n(I used to think that English versions used "Babel" here because it sounded like "babble" and that worked.  That may be a factor, but interestingly the Latin Vulgate had already rendered it as "Babel" only in this passage... and there IS no word "babble" in Latin!)
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No, you don't pronounce it in the word "et", I can assure you. French is my mother tongue and I speak it and write it very well. The word "et" is pronounced "ay". If you pronounce the "T", it may sound like the word "est", which mean "is".  In that case, you would be saying "A man IS a woman". But I don't think that's what you mean. ;)\n\nFor other french words ending by the letter "T", it depends. French is full of exceptions and rules... Most of the time you should pronounce it but it is accepted in common language to let it go.
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in standard arabic it is /a.tha.th/ /th/=as in thin أثـاث\n\nin collequial arabic in egypt it's /afsh/ /a/=as in Abdullah عفش
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In Cantonese , it sound like " Mo tong Hall Lok"\nIn Mandarine, it sound like " Wu Tung Ker Ler"
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It might sound like a lisp, but it's actually a different consonant.\n\nSpeakers of Spanish in the Americas use an "s" sound for words that are spelled with "z", but some people from Spain use a sound like the English "th" in the same situation.  Therefore, a Spanish-speaker from Mexico might say "corazon" as "cor-a-son" and a Spanish-speaker from Spain might say "cor-a-thon".  This isn't a lisp; it's just a difference between the dialects of Spanish.
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It's pronounced [/ˌwɪkiˈpiːdi.ə/] or [/ˌwiki-/] (IPA format).\n\nI pronounce wiki to rhyme with quicky, but I've heard others say "wicker-pedia", where the wicker part which sort of rhymes with snicker.\n\nWiktionary has an audio file showing the UK and US ways of pronouncing it. You can listen to them at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikipedia
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I think it can be pronounced a number of ways. \n  Nye- yen, Noo-yen, When, and Nwen are the ones I've heard.
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I don't think there's such a thing.\n\nAnyway, pronouncing it is easy. Every letter is pronounced (well, theoretically, it should be).All the consonants are pronounced basically the same way as in english, with some exceptions; \n\nJ: it's like the "ch" in scottish "loch". A bit softer, maybe.\nG: before E and I, it's pronounced like a spanish "j", But;when you come across "gue","gui" groups, don't pronounce the "u". The sound it's like in "Ghent"="Guent". In that case or elsewhre, it's like the G in "gun". NEVER like in "general" in any case.\nV and B: Both are pronounced as B.\nH: It's not pronounced, except after a C. CH, like in english.\nÑ: can you say lasagna? that same GN sound.\nC: has two sounds, like K ( before A,O,U or consonant) or like TH in english "Thunder" (elsewhere).\nZ; Like TH group in "Thunder"\nQ: like K. In "QUE" and "QUI" groups, the U is not pronounced at all.\nLL and Y: BOTH like the Y in "Yellow". Exception; word "Y" meaning "And". Pronounced "ee". E.g; "You and me" = "Tu y yo", pron; Too ee jo. \nR: Either like the first R in "Repair" but harder (in the beggining of a word or before consonant) or like in "arise" (before vowel), but softer.\nRR: Like in the first R in "Repair" but harder.\n\nI think that's it, basically.\n\nVowels; unlike english, they're ALWAYS pronounced in the same manner, in every word.\n\nA: like the A of "lamb".\nE: like the E of "personal".\nI: like the I of "bit".\nO: like the O of "mob".\nU: like the OO group of "spoon", but a bit shorter.
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Hey, Americans know how to speak English too.  (Well, some of us.)\n\nIt is correct to pronounce the word "the" as "thee" before a vowel.  "Thee" apple sounds better and is easier to say than "thə" apple.\n-MM
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So, phonetically it's HID-uh-kel, HID-ih-kel.  I have only found one site so far where you can hear it spoken but it is in a really long electronically voiced sentence.  It's toword the end of the wav.  It takes a while to open.
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Well, how could you pronounce bwnwnw or drwp or wdwr?\nY is sometimes used as a vowel, e.g. myth, crypt, hymn.
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"Couch," like a sofa?  It's "el sofa".  Pronounced so-FAH.   (Should have an accent on the "a".)
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Morgan is right.  It's always pronounced "thee" in front of a vowel, and "thuh" before a consonant.  The letter "y" is sometimes a vowel, but when it's the first letter of a word, it's a consonant.  So: "thuh" yard, "thuh" dog, "thee" elephant.  Hope this helps! =)
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I believe it's English.  Check this site.
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HELLO    : Teanastëllën(pronounced teen-ass-tell-an) or the informal way is also(as in goodbye) SALAM(pronounced sall-aam)pronounced all together in rapiditiy.. sallaam.. by the way, this SALAM is also heavily arabic. I used  that word in hello and goodbye in Mauritania and other Arab countries.\n\n\nGoodbye: To a man: Dehna hun (pronounced day-na hun--as in hunt).. that is to a man in somewhat formal tones.\n\nGoodbye: to a man in somewhat informal: SELAM (prounounced say-laam)\n\nThank you:  Amesegënallô(as in: Ame-segi-na-lew ) thus, pronounced as: amay-saygi-nah-lou)\n\nThis langukage is used a log in Ethiopia, Egypt and even Israel
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This website has all the pronunciations:\nhttp://www.omniglot.com/writing/english.htm\nand gives links to other websites.
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The dictionary says it can be pronounced either way.  But what difference does it make?  The Celtics say "Celtics," and  that's  that.