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Question: How do you pronounce "Dzokhar"?
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Ja-har		  
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Ja-kar		  
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Jo-har		  
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Jo-kar		  
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Ya-har		  
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Ya-kar		  
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Yo-har		  
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Yo-kar		  
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Za-har		  
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Za-kar		  
#11
Zo-har		  
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Zo-kar		  
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« on: April 27, 2013, 11:35:05 PM »
It seems the first consonant can be a J, Y, or Z, the second consonant can be a K or H, and the first vowel can be "ah" or "oh".



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« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2013, 11:38:49 PM »
I don't know that I've needed to. I don't care for the celebrité surrounding murderers in this country.
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« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2013, 11:49:25 PM »
According to Wikipedia, it is "DZHO-khawr", so option #4 I guess.
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« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2013, 11:53:22 PM »
French news pronounce it "Jo-kar", so that's how I hear it in my head now. Don't know if that's good, considering how bad the French are with foreign pronunciations...
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« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2013, 12:54:58 AM »
Zokar
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« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2013, 12:59:49 AM »
"ZOH-ee day-shuh-NELL"
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« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2013, 01:08:28 AM »
Tscho-kaar
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« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2013, 05:03:56 AM »
Quote from: Ethelberth on April 28, 2013, 12:06:38 AM
Johar that is phonetically dʒohar .
dʒoˈxɑr. Poll options three and four are fail, all others are epic fail.
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« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2013, 08:01:52 AM »
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Quote from: Ethelberth on April 28, 2013, 12:06:38 AM
Johar that is phonetically dʒohar .
dʒoˈxɑr. Poll options three and four are fail, all others are epic fail.

Indeed. It's not an h, and it's not a k. It's a "kh" like the ch in "loch".
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« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2013, 08:47:43 AM »
I read it as Jo-kar, but I pronounce it as Ja-har
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« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2013, 11:16:40 AM »
Zohh-Kharr.
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« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2013, 11:56:58 AM »
Zo-Kar.  Though I've never once given voice to the name, nor in fact even recited it in my internal monologue.
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« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2013, 01:38:16 PM »
« Edited: April 28, 2013, 01:59:07 PM by Χahar »
The poll options are very unclear. The Russian pronunciation would be [dʐɐˈxar], but I do not speak Russian, so I would pronounce it [d͡ʒəˈxaɹ].
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« Reply #13 on: April 28, 2013, 02:20:34 PM »
dʒo-kahr
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« Reply #14 on: April 28, 2013, 03:39:18 PM »
The only pronunciation that is important is - "murd er er"
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« Reply #15 on: April 28, 2013, 04:44:42 PM »

Good lord, why would you know that, are you a linguistic major?
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« Reply #16 on: April 28, 2013, 05:45:38 PM »
Quote from: 31: A New Bushie on April 28, 2013, 03:39:18 PM
The only pronunciation that is important is - "murd er er"

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« Reply #17 on: April 28, 2013, 08:29:42 PM »
A mix of options 3 and 4, mostly option 3.
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« Reply #18 on: April 28, 2013, 09:05:17 PM »
Jo-har with emphasis on A(proper Russian pronunciation).
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« Reply #19 on: April 28, 2013, 11:17:59 PM »
According to Londo Mollari it's "G'Kar".
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« Reply #20 on: April 29, 2013, 12:36:58 PM »
Quote from: muon2 on April 28, 2013, 11:17:59 PM
According to Londo Mollari it's "G'Kar".

Good heavens that's awful.  But at least you had the decency not to post it in that weird linguistics department script.
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« Reply #21 on: April 29, 2013, 03:58:15 PM »
Quote from: opebo on April 28, 2013, 04:44:42 PM

Good lord, why would you know that, are you a linguistic major?

Well I pronounce it like the Czech's pronounce "dž" (studied abroad in the Czech republic so I remember how to pronounce their alphabet at least) but presumably there are more linguistic majors floating around on this forum than there are Slavs.
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« Reply #22 on: April 30, 2013, 03:38:43 PM »
dzɔkɑɻ tsɑɻnijɛv

Anglicization!
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« Reply #23 on: April 30, 2013, 03:40:18 PM »
Quote from: Sol on April 30, 2013, 03:38:43 PM
dzɔ.'kɑɻ tsɑɻ.'ni.jɛv

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« Reply #24 on: April 30, 2013, 07:44:54 PM »
« Edited: May 01, 2013, 08:17:45 AM by angus »
I pronounce it more or less like "Joe Car" as in "dat not joe car; dat somebody else's car!"  This is how it comes across in its spelling.  Is that incorrect?  The first syllable is pretty obvious, but I suspect that the "KH" is somehow significant, so maybe it's more like "Joe Car" but the "car" part should actually be like the first sound in the arabic name Khalil.  We don't really have that name in English, but it's a bit like the end of the German Ich, as in "Ich bin ein Berliner" or the CH in a toast at a Hebrew wedding "L'Chaim"  (to life!) or the sound of someone with a serious head cold hacking up a big lugie.  Is it like that?  Joe CKKHHar!  where the second syllable is the spitting of the lugie on the wall and the final "r" is a tiny bit rhotic with a slap of the tongue on the roof of the mouth like a Mexican pronouncing the city name Merida.

anyway, it seems like your fourth option so that's how I'll vote.
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