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by Elinor (guest)
1/1/2005, 3:42 PM
Both are in the database ...Chara: I'm assuming it's simply as Cara and Kara, considering other Greek names where "ch" represents a hard "k" sound ... Chloe, Charmian, Nicholas, Charis ...Alaia: a-LAY-a, a-LYE-a, or something else?Thanks in advance
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- Miss Claire
1/1/2005, 4:35 PM
Alaia is a-lie-a, but I'm not sure about Chara. Probably ka-ra...
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- Anthony (guest)
1/1/2005, 6:32 PM
I had a student Chara what was pronounced CHA-rah
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- Pavlos (guest)
1/3/2005, 4:51 PM
On the "ch" soundBoth the Greek letters X (chi)and K (kappa) are often transliterated to "ch" in English -- this is the sourse of confusion!Words written in Greek with a chi (eg. Chloe, Chara and Charis) are prounounced in Greek with an "H" (soft as in house, not "throat-clearing-harsh" as in Scottish or Hebrew): HLOE-ee, ha-RAH, HA-rees). Conversely, those written in Greek with a K (eg. Nicholas) are pronounced with a "K" sound.Sounds Greek to you?
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- Evdoxia
1/10/2005, 3:10 PM
Hello Pavlos is correct for the proper Greek
pronunciation-the name should sound like Ha ra.
This of course is related to the word Charisma which
in English is pronunced as K sound-for English pronunciations.
Today in Greece the modern form of the name CHARA is CHARI (HA REE)
or CHAROULA (HA ROO LA)
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