Final Fantasy Pronunciations

[DJZen]

It depends on if I'm trying to stick to Japanese cannon or mythological cannon.

Bahamut is pronounced "BaHAAmoot"
Quezacotl is pronounced "ke-tsih-ko-ah-tl"
Ragnarok is pronounced "ROON-ya-ruhk", but that sounds ridiculous so I usually just say "Rag-nar-rock"

Now many of the words are changed when the game is translated, (Cactuars are called Sabotenda in the Japanese versions), but the ones that aren't are east to figure out the pronunciation of by looking at the word.

Seifer is pronounced like the word "Cypher" (Germanic languages have "ei" pronounced like we pronounce the word "eye").
Chocobo is properly pronounced "Chokkobo".
Tidus is pronounced "Tee-doos", but that's very awkward for english so "TEE-dus" is probably an okay approximation.

Kjata I can't QUITE remember, but I believe the proper pronunciation was lost in translation (similar to how Typoon should have been spelled Typhoon), and that it's really "KOO-jah-tah".

[rubah]

hmm.

tifa: tif'- aa
aeris: air'-ess (heiress)
yuffie: yuf'- fee
sephiroth: seph'- er-off (although I have thought this one over many times, and sometimes think it should be seph-ear'-off)
kjata: key-ya'-ta, like a miata.
leviathan: lev-ee-ath'-en (that was back when I was playing ff5 that I thought that one over a lot, leh-vi'-a-thun was an alternative)
bahamut: ba-ha'-mut (occaisional ba-a-mut' sorta like baja california, or whatever)
Shiva: shii'-va (I used to say she'-va, but my dad said 'isn't it shii'-va?' so I sorta started saying that instead)
(I was happy when ffx came out and chocobo was said exactly how I thought it was cho'-ko-bo)
Wutai: woo-ta'-[eih]
da-chao: da' kii'-o

Rinoa: rih-no'-ah (I have a soundclip of someone pronouncing this somewhere. . . )
seifer: cypher. It grates on the nerves to have someone call him 'see-fer', it just sounds weird to me.
irvine: erv'-in (not er-vine)
Quistis: keys'-tis (it was qwest-est(with the t) before I started learning how to speak french)
Edea: Eeh-dee'-ah
Ellone: ell'-own
Quezacotl: kweez'-a-coat-ul (I persuade myself I know how to pronounce Tenochtitlan sometimes)
Cactuar: cac'-tar (I can't really remember how they say it in x-2. . . it seems like yuna can't make up her mind which way, if I remember right. )
ragnarok: rag'-na-r-ock (roll that r baby!)
renzokuken: ren'-zo-kuk-en (until another alternative presents itself. this is another I've said over and over, getting all sorts of results, like ray'en-zo-ku-ke'en, ren-zok'-ku-ken, etc)

zidane: zih-dane'
quina: kwen'-ah
steiner: styn'-er
freya: fray-ah (how is this supposed to be pronounced? I'm not too up on my european languages. . . or other languages for that matter)
Lindblum: lind'-blu(m my archnemesis. I never pay attention to the name long enough, so I've been thinking it 'lind-baulm' )

then ul'-tim-ah, kyur'-ag'-a, fir-ag'-a, etc, level three spells fun!

(you know what's really much harder to say outloud than to think it? cheshah.)

(something else that's hard (for me anyways) to say outloud is the word/letter ng. yay for filipino.)

(I'm apt to mispronounce words because I learn most of them on the internet-- a pronunciationless medium-_-)

[Alexander]

1.) BAHAMUT :- ba-HA-mut
2.) ULTIMA :- ul-tim-a
3.) KJATA :- ku-JA-ta
4.) CACTUAR :- CACK-tu-arr
5.) QUEZACOTL ; quez-'a'-COAT-ul
6.) TIFA ; TEE-fa
7.) SEIFER ; SEE-fer XD

[DJZen]

re-n-zo-ku-ke-n if you want to be really OCD about it

[JayDee]

BAHAMUT- Ba-ha-mutt
ULTIMA- ole-tim-ah
KJATA- K-ja-tah (but i reckon it's either Jata(silent K) or Kyatah)
CACTUAR- kak-ta
QUETZACOTL- kwets-sa-kottle
TIFA- Tee-fa
SEIFER- Sigh-fa (because ive got an Australian accent, An american
would highlight the R)

[Braindead_Paul]

Seifer is pronounced like the word "Cypher" (Germanic languages have "ei" pronounced like we pronounce the word "eye").

That's right. It's pronounced like "Cifer" which is his name in the german version of the game.

[Del Murder]

1.) BAHAMUT - ba-HA-moot
2.) ULTIMA - ul-TIM-a
3.) KJATA - kuh-JA-tuh
4.) CACTUAR - CACK-tar
5.) QUEZACOTL - kay-zuh-COT-ul
6.) TIFA - TEE-fa
7.) SEIFER - SIGH-fer