How to pronounce Motaguense

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I think it's lay shar dee.

I like that I was saying Lee char dye, Lee char dee which is close to yours. That's the problem with using a dead language no one uses it no one speaks it so if you never took Latin you don't no the rules of the language so everyone comes up with their own version of the word. For me any word ending in I has a long e sound because that's how we pronounce I at the end of a word. Like before with kelberi, my natural pronunciation would be kel beer ee not kel beer eye. I've been told I speak Latin with an Italian accent, I guess that's a good way to discribe it.
 
Yes,the whole latin pronunciation subject is very interesting.
 
Then I apoligize. Mine wasn't very well worded either I guess =S. And ya, I cheat with RTM too.
whatever ya do, don't apologize to me. it could get you banned from the He-Man Woman Haters Club.
besides, 'not necessary' ;-)
 
what about amphilophus?

Am fill op us
Or
Am fill oh fuss
 
buttikoferi....
 
I think the Latin pronunciation always makes the final "i" pronounced as "eye". With Motaguense and Managuense....pronunciation is,according to Juan Miquel's Cichlid Room Companion. mo-tah-GWEN-sis....the other man-a-GWEN-sis. No idea on the Cichla. There used to be a page on Ron Coleman's Cichlid Research Project that spelled out not only how to pronounce, but also common names...some of which that were NOT so common anymore. Like Aztec cichlid for Managuense.
 
Another one is jardini, I always say jar-dee-nee like Houdini not jar-dean-eye which is probably the correct pronunciation.
 
I like that I was saying Lee char dye, Lee char dee which is close to yours. That's the problem with using a dead language no one uses it no one speaks it so if you never took Latin you don't no the rules of the language so everyone comes up with their own version of the word. For me any word ending in I has a long e sound because that's how we pronounce I at the end of a word. Like before with kelberi, my natural pronunciation would be kel beer ee not kel beer eye. I've been told I speak Latin with an Italian accent, I guess that's a good way to discribe it.

Actually I'm taking Latin this coming year so I will be able to help with pronoucniation more!
 
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