character name pronunciation

Hello everyone I have always wonder as some of you probably have on pronunciations of some of the star wars characters' names and I'm sure some of you out there know the real way to pronounce these characters. some of them I'm pretty sure that I'm pronouncing correctly other I'm unsure

Anyways here are a few that I am having a debate on, with friends and family and have no sure way of proving one way or another. You know some people unless it's in the movies or george lucas himself pronounces it then they just won't believe you. And after a while it gets tiring when you talk about star wars and all they want to do is correct you on what think it should sound like. I just want to know if I am infact pronouncing some them right and others I have no idea.

jaina solo
jacen solo
exar kun
prince xizor
saelt-marae
horox ryder
melee
tzizvvt
shaak ti
ask aak
fema baab
fiolla

Thanks for the help

 

Xizor is the only one I had trouble with. I think I eventually found a source that told me to pronounce it "sheezor", though.

 

Yes thank you that is the one I was having the most trouble with

 

Shaak Ti is spoken in the Clone Wars cartoons and in a deleted scene on the RotS DVD

Jacen is basically Jason
(only, I refuse to call im that and make it Jah-sen, even if it's 'wrong')

I'd say the rest is pretty straightforward (except tzizvvt - and I thought Skynxnex was hard to pronounce)

 

jaina solo - Jay-na
jacen solo - Jay-son
exar kun - Ex-ar Koon
prince xizor - Sheezor (Although I still say Zi-zor)
saelt-marae - Saalt-Maraa
horox ryder - (W)Hor(e)-Ox
melee - Mey-ley
tzizvvt - Tziz-ut (Tz = Czar/Tsar)
shaak ti - Shok Tee
ask aak - Ask Ark
fema baab (Fe-Ma Barb)
fiolla (Fee-oll-ah)

That's how I mainly do it.

 

Jay-na? I always say Jah-ee-nah

maybe to make it sound interesting (unlike Jason...)

 

Here's one for you all

Ysanne Isard.

 

e-zann eye-zard
probably too germanized

 

Actually that's how I've always said it.

 

Well... Thanks for the help it seems as though some of them have can't be said for certain I geuss. Thanks for the help

 

"Eesard"

Doesn't it have to be eye-zard because they turn it into Iceheart?

 

Like that, but i pronounce the e. More E-zann-y eye-zard. Thats how I always pronounced it and how its done on my audio book of the bacta war.

 

Me neither. I always pronounced it Ee-zanne Is-'ard.

This is the one I always struggled with:

Zsinj

For some reason I always pronounce it like Zjinkx

 

Aaron Allston told us at Jedi-Con
not sure how to write it out, though

"zinj", basically

 

Like 'singe' perhaps?

 

It's fun to massacre names! Here's how I've always ripped them apart...

jaina solo - JAY-nuh
jacen solo - JAY-sen
exar kun - EK-zar koon
prince xizor - originally I pronounced it ZEE-zor, until I read somewhere it was SHEE-zor as mentioned above
saelt-marae - SAY-elt muh-RAY - now that's butchering it!
horox ryder - HOR-ox RYE-der
melee - MAY-lay
tzizvvt - TSI-zvit - Ack. That's always a tough one.
shaak ti - SHACK tee
ask aak - ASK awk (you know, like the sound in the word bazaar...)
fema baab - FEE-muh bawb
fiolla - FEE-yowla

Certainly we can find more names we have troubles pronouncing? I know I do!

 

I always pronounce shaak ti as shack.. even though I know it sounds like shock.. I just like shack