Pronunciation of "Ngaio"

[Mark Mandel]

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> At 10:32 PM -0400 5/9/09, Mark Mandel wrote:
> >If I had to guess, I'd say that someone just put in the (a?) Vietnamese
> >pronunciation, quite impersonally (so to speak).
>
> Not *the*, if only because no tones are provided

No tones? I see a caron over the "e".

m a m

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