Pronunciation of Jeudiel
Ayudarme, por favor! How do you pronounce the Spanish name "Jeudiel" properly? Gracias!
Jeudiel ....is it pronounced (heydee-el?)
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Here you can hear a synthesizer speak "Su nombre es Judiel" ----> link text.
Just "click" on the link and give it 10 or 20 seconds to play itself.
So why don't the eu form a diphthong like in Europa?
A diphthong is defined as "A complex vowel sound that begins with the sound of one vowel and ends with the sound of another vowel, in the same syllable."
I may be wrong, I don't believe the letters "EU" in Spanish form a diphthong. When "E" and "U" are together in any Spanish word each letter forms a distinct sound in its own syllable.
The prefix "eu" was quite common in classical Greek (for reasons that I don't know it has turned into "ef" [e.g "eucharist" in Modern Greek is has morphed into "efjaristo" (using Spanish orthography) and is, of course" the source for the English "Eucharist" (in which the first syllable is (in English) pronounced like the pronoun "you"). Probably because to the popularity of the prefix (in English) its pronunciation became divorced from its spelling (in English). The diphthong value seems to have been better preserved in Spanish.
To Qfreed:
Yesterday, I was introduced to Paco's wife. This is a true representation of what Paco said. Her name is Eunise. Listen ----> Eunise.
Your question about dipthong brought this to mind. I would have pronounced the "Eu" in Europa and in Eunise in the same way I do it in English. Now what??
I think it is pronounced hey-ude-iel
