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Bonaire Languages: Ezels
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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dan Jolly (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #160) on Saturday, December 13, 2008 - 11:00 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Question on pronunciation. As a non-dutch speaker I would pronounce Ezel as "eezel" but I have also heard it as "azel". Any ideas?

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jake Richter - Richter Art Gallery (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #6401) on Saturday, December 13, 2008 - 12:41 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Phonetically "Eh-zehl" in Dutch and German.

The "Eh" is like an English long "a" - a bit longer than the Canadian "eh", and similar to the vowel sound in the word "raid" in English

Jake

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dan Jolly (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #162) on Saturday, December 13, 2008 - 1:34 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Thanks Jake. So Ezel is pronounced with the long a (English) vowel sound - sort of like Aizel ?

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jake Richter - Richter Art Gallery (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #6402) on Saturday, December 13, 2008 - 6:37 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Like the "ai" as in "aid". Not with the "ai" in "chai".

Jake

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dan Jolly (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #164) on Saturday, December 13, 2008 - 7:54 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Gotcha. Thanks.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob Smits (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #660) on Sunday, December 14, 2008 - 7:09 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Say Hasel or Hazel
Then skip the H

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By duco wiertsema (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #2) on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 4:16 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Bob you are exactly right, this how you would say Ezel.

 


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