Angua Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 As an avid Final Fantasy player as well as the FR games, how names are pronounced has allways fascinated me. Recently playing the Ajantis romance for bgtutu, and I'd like to know how everyone pronounces his name, or if there really is a correct way to say it. For the record, so far I'm thinking Ah-yan-tee (the y making a silent j sound that is very hard to write down.. kinda jjjjh... bah) Link to comment
theacefes Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 I sorta just pronounced it as I read it...and I am American so maybe that has something to do with it too. Ah-jan (pronounce the j and have the an pronounced like "yams", which are good). And tis, pronounce like Shakespeare. This is probably wrong, but it's what stuck when I was 13 years old. Link to comment
BigRob Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 Oddly, I've always thought of Ajantis as A-JAN-tis. I'm probably way too literal with my pronunciations Link to comment
Gabrielle Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 Ah jan tis. American English our j's use a hard pronunciation. It would appear to be that the Latin based languages pronounce a j like a y. Link to comment
theacefes Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 I thought only Spanish did that, correct me? Link to comment
Gabrielle Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 I know Spanish does. I believe the others like Italian, Romanian and Portuguese are the same? I am sure I'll be corrected if I am wrong. Link to comment
Icendoan Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 Doesn't German do that as well? Icen Link to comment
Miloch Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 J is "y" in German, a hard "h" in Spanish (like ch in "loch"). I've always thought Ajantis had an English pronunciation (with the hard j and s). Link to comment
theacefes Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 I don't remember Italian doing that...I'll have to ask my mom. She's an expert. Link to comment
Miloch Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 There's no j in Italian. The sound is represented by g instead (as in bon giorno). The j in French is like 's' in pleasure (or "zh"). Same goes for Portuguese I think. Link to comment
Western Paladin Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 Same goes for Portuguese I think. Correct. In fact, I seem to recall only the Brazilian dialect of Portuguese has a sound comparable to English's J. Link to comment
Jarin Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 I pronounce Ajantis with the A as the dutch do it (After all...) and the english Y Link to comment
Guest Guest_Valdemar_* Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Like Alantis, but with a y. V. Link to comment
Domi Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 I say A-d-zh-antis (which is incorrect, but I am used to it), with all the a's pronounced as "ah"'s. I think I will never get over reading the names 'lietrally'. I had no idea Jan was actually Yan, until I've heard it in the game. I still call him Zhan.... I tend to turn my "j" in "dzh"'s as in Joy. But anyways, different from G, which I read as "G" in great. Link to comment
Cal Jones Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Ajantis, to rhyme with Atlantis. And J as in jam. Link to comment
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