[Ads-l] pronunciation of the capital of Ukraine

[Dan Goncharoff]

Are you sure you meant to refer to the first syllable? I would agree if you
meant the second syllable.

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019, 3:40 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> > KEY-ev, similar to the car company Kia, but with a v at the end.with a v
> at the end
>
> If we're going for an approximation of the native pronunciation, the vowel
> of the first syllable doesn't exist in English, being very similar to
> Russian ы, a kind of unrounded _u_, and _w_ becomes a _v_ only when
> followed by a vowel in the course of declension or of rapid speech.
> Name-drop: I studied Ukrainian under the tutelage of the late, great Prof.
> G. Y. Shevelov.
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 1:48 PM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am not sure how to explain it, but I would say that what most people
> get
> > wrong is the second syllable is not expressed as a full syllable, but as
> a
> > second vowel sound following the first: KEY-ev, similar to the car
> company
> > Kia, but with a v at the end.
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019, 6:50 AM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > What do residents of that city say?
> > >
> > > Approximately: KIH.yew.
> > >
> > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 5:49 PM David K. Barnhart <
> > dbarnhart at highlands.com
> > > >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Recently I've heard news media people saying
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 'ki:v
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Rather than what I recall hearing heretofore as
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 'ki: ev
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > What do residents of that city say?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Regards to all,
> > > >
> > > > David
> > > >
> > > >
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