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Pronunciation help please on: April 10, 2017 09:19
I need help pronouncing "cotumonyain" as in Qualmë cotumonyain. My dungeons and Dragons character's native language is Quenya, but I haven't quite learned enough yet for some pronunciations to come naturally. I am assuming "ku tuhm un yahn"?
The o sounds like the o in dock, u like the oo in book.
The diphthong ai is like the vowel combination in bye.
There shouldn't be a pause between the n and the y, the n-sound flows into the y-sound in the same breath.
The most difficult for English language speakers is however to drop the puff after consonants: e.g. in English cat has a small puff immediately after the k-sound. In Quenya this is never so.