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Re: pronunciation question - Radha
I've known several women with this name and they all pronounce it ROD-huh with the emphasis on the first syllable. ("Rod" rhymes with "God"). Hope that helps!
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Yes, thank you. I was beginning to think I'd just asked a question so stupid, no one was going to stoop to answer it.. LOL. Appreciate your answer. I guess the poll writer was just making it up.- chazda
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In Sanskrit rAdhA (prosperity, from the root rAdh, to succeed) is pronounced as two clear syllables rA foolowed by dhA. The A is closest approximated by the English a in car. The r is like in English, not like in French. The dh is a dental voiced aspirate, a sound that does not exist, to my knowledge, in English: it is like the th in the but with aspiration. Try speaking the th sound of the with the h sound of he together to make the th-h into one consonant, and that is it.
Modern Indoaryan languages are mostly unstressed.I do not know of any Indian language where the pronounciation differs substantially from the one I tried to describe above.
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