Joseba Beloki?

With a couple of minor exceptions, Basque words are pronounced the same
as if they were Spanish words even though the language itself is not at
all the same. B and V are phonetically the same in Spanish - some places
more like one than the other but always the same as each other. Joseba
is ho-SAY-bah, actually a pretty common Basque name - do a google on it.



I did not realize that, thanks .

That's what I thought too, except Phil Liggett, Paul, Bob calls him Yo She
ba...



"DiabloScott" wrote in message
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Fred Marx wrote:
Jiyang Chen wrote:
What's the real pronunciation of his name?

Ho-she-ba? Ho-se-ba? Yo-she-ba?

etc....

I would think it would be like Jose plus the "ba" in the end.


Jiyang


except that I believe he's Basque and that throws all the Spanish
pronounciation rules right out the window.....



With a couple of minor exceptions, Basque words are pronounced the same
as if they were Spanish words even though the language itself is not at
all the same. B and V are phonetically the same in Spanish - some places
more like one than the other but always the same as each other. Joseba
is ho-SAY-bah, actually a pretty common Basque name - do a google on it.



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"Jiyang Chen" wrote in news:bg6jfk
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What's the real pronunciation of his name?

Ho-she-ba?
Ho-se-ba?
Yo-she-ba?

etc....

I would think it would be like Jose plus the "ba" in the end.


Jiyang

Yes, but in Spanish, the b is pronounced as a v.
So, phonetically it would be:

Ho-se-va



'Cept Beloki is Basque ... And not "Spanish" per se ...


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So do the French announcers.

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That's what I thought too, except Phil Liggett, Paul, Bob calls him Yo She
ba...



"DiabloScott" wrote in message
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Fred Marx wrote:
Jiyang Chen wrote:
What's the real pronunciation of his name?

Ho-she-ba? Ho-se-ba? Yo-she-ba?

etc....

I would think it would be like Jose plus the "ba" in the end.


Jiyang


except that I believe he's Basque and that throws all the Spanish
pronounciation rules right out the window.....



With a couple of minor exceptions, Basque words are pronounced the same
as if they were Spanish words even though the language itself is not at
all the same. B and V are phonetically the same in Spanish - some places
more like one than the other but always the same as each other. Joseba
is ho-SAY-bah, actually a pretty common Basque name - do a google on it.



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"Jiyang Chen" wrote in message ...
That's what I thought too, except Phil Liggett, Paul, Bob calls him Yo She
ba...


yo-say-ba

And Phil and Paul are absolute crap when it comes to pronouncing spanish names.

bob roll is pretty painfull as well,

i.e. how he pronounces Euskatel-Euskadi: Ew-ska-tel Es-kaid-i

it's Ew-ska-tel Es-kod-i (more or less)

"Ingemar Svensson" wrote in message
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"Jiyang Chen" wrote in message
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What's the real pronunciation of his name?

Ho-she-ba?
Ho-se-ba?
Yo-she-ba?

By all certainty Joseba is not pronounced with a ho- in the beginning.
That's the latinamerican version of pronouncing a J.

You meant the Castillian Spanish way, right? ;-)

In Spain it's
pronounced like ch in the german "doch" (sorry don't know the english
phonetic of it). It sounds like when you clear your throat.

The pronounciation comes from his Basque origin.

versions I have heard of his name are either Cho-se-ba or yo-se-ba,
with the first example beeing the most common. The b in the last
syllible is pronounced like a b without closing your lips.

Then in English, phonetically his name will pronounce

Joseba ---- yo-SSeh-bah
Beloki ----- beh-Loh-kee

Juani

Alex Beascochea wrote:
DiabloScott wrote in message
...
Fred Marx wrote:
Jiyang Chen wrote:
What's the real pronunciation of his name?

Ho-she-ba? Ho-se-ba? Yo-she-ba?

etc....

I would think it would be like Jose plus the "ba" in the end.


Jiyang


except that I believe he's Basque and that throws all the Spanish
pronounciation rules right out the window...



With a couple of minor exceptions, Basque words are pronounced the
same as if they were Spanish words even though the language itself is
not at all the same. B and V are phonetically the same in Spanish -
some places more like one than the other but always the same as each
other. Joseba is ho-SAY-bah, actually a pretty common Basque name - do
a google on it.
You are right. In spanish there is not phonetic difference between B and
V. In basque there is not even syntactic V. But you are wrong about the
pronounciation of Joseba, it it is not like spanish Jose' + ba.
The name is pronounced (more or less):
Yo-sE-ba (like Yosemite but replace ba for mite, stress on the E).
The lastname is quite straightforward.
Be-lO-kii (stress on O).
Alex.



Here's a blurb from http://www.eirelink.com/alanking/collbq1c.htm (keep
in mind that the references to English are from the Irish perspective
and references to Spanish are from the castellano perspective):

"S and z are both 's' sounds, but differ: z is like an emphatic English
's' as in 'hiss', almost but not quite lisped; s is a 'mushier' sound,
almost like English 'sh' but not quite.

"The letter j is pronounced differently in different parts of the
Basque Country. In and around Gipuzkoa, it sounds like the ch in loch,
i.e. like a throaty h sound. Another common pronunciation is similar to
the y in yoyo. In a few words it always has the latter sound, e.g. Jon
'John'. The verb joan 'go' should be pronounced either 'hwan' or
'yo-an', although several other dialectal pronunciations of this common
word exist. "



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Mike Bruno wrote:
Not only that, Phil insists on pronouncing the 'H' in Roberto Herras.
This annoys my wife (a native Spanish speaker) no end.

Ask any english man to pronounce Livorno, Santander or La Coruña (Leghorn,
Sant-ANN-der, Corunna)


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"Jiyang Chen" wrote in message ...
That's what I thought too, except Phil Liggett, Paul, Bob calls him Yo She
ba...


yo-say-ba

And Phil and Paul are absolute crap when it comes to pronouncing spanish names.

bob roll is pretty painfull as well,

i.e. how he pronounces Euskatel-Euskadi: Ew-ska-tel Es-kaid-i

it's Ew-ska-tel Es-kod-i (more or less)