Fan-yuh or Fa-nee-ah?

kidinquisitivekidinquisitive 1,627 Posts
edited April 2008 in Strut Central
I always assumed Fania was pronounced like Fan-yuh and I'm sure I've heard other people pronounce it like this. Recently I heard a couple of people pronounce it as Fa-nee-ah. How do you say it?
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  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,080 Posts
    It's fah-ni-ah

  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
    It's fah-ni-ah


    "-ni-" as in rhymes-with-eye or rhymes-with-tea?

  • buttonbutton 1,475 Posts
    'ee' I'd imagine. I don't think latin americans use the "eye" i. Aye?

  • JLRJLR 3,835 Posts
    rhymes-with-tea

  • yuichiyuichi Urban sprawl 11,331 Posts
    I always imagined it with an accent on "Fa". like Tania...

  • JLRJLR 3,835 Posts
    like Tania...

    that's exactly how it sounds, but with the F

  • like Tania...

    that's exactly how it sounds, but with the F

    Fania like Tanya, right?

  • yuichiyuichi Urban sprawl 11,331 Posts
    like Tania...

    that's exactly how it sounds, but with the F

    3 years of Spanish in HS, what.

  • nessness 249 Posts
    'las estrellas de fania (fah-nee-ah) van a comenzar"

  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
    It's fah-ni-ah

    like Tania...

    that's exactly how it sounds, but with the F

    ???

    no definitive conclusion I guess.

  • I'm going to wait for Odub to chime in.

  • JLRJLR 3,835 Posts
    It's fah-ni-ah

    like Tania...

    that's exactly how it sounds, but with the F

    ???

    no definitive conclusion I guess.

    I read Tania like TAH - NI (rhymes with tea) - AH, just like Fania

  • JLRJLR 3,835 Posts
    I'm going to wait for Odub to chime in.

    wait all you want, but I speak spanish every day of my life, so I'm like, basically, right

  • Shit, I'm so confused now. Well, I just pulled out the Fania All Stars at the Red Garter and Symphony Sid introduces them as the Fan-yah or Fan-yuh All Stars.

  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
    I'm going to wait for Odub to chime in.

    wait all you want, but I speak spanish every day of my life, so I'm like, basically, right

    no doubt. I don't think anyones tetting your Spanish skills.

    but in English "Tania" is a two-syllable name. it sorta rhymes with "ganja."

  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    Dude, my spanish is like 3rd grade. I barely can order a burrito correctly.

  • Dude, my spanish is like 3rd grade. I barely can order a burrito correctly.

    OK, well do you remember how Joe Bataan pronounced it when you interviewed him? I'm just wondering now if both pronunciations are acceptable.

  • JLRJLR 3,835 Posts


    but in English "Tania" is a two-syllable name.

    it's also two-syllable in spanish Ta-nia

    "i" is what we called a "soft vocal", so when it's near a "strong vocal", like an "a", they form a unique syllable

    :conocimientotirado:

  • nessness 249 Posts
    Shit, I'm so confused now. Well, I just pulled out the Fania All Stars at the Red Garter and Symphony Sid introduces them as the Fan-yah or Fan-yuh All Stars.

    all respect due to symphony sid but it's not fun-yuh or fan-yah.

    fa-nee-a.

  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
    odub poast an mp3 of an interview excerpt with Bataan to clear this up.

    (unless he refused to utter the name of said label.)

  • nessness 249 Posts
    just wondering now if both pronunciations are acceptable.

    if you're a gringo you're gonna say it how you say it. but i thought it was about the 'correct pronunciation'.

  • JLRJLR 3,835 Posts
    here's the solution for dudes on Windows:

    go to "Control panel" >>> "Voice" >>> type "Fahniah" and make electronic dude say it, that's exactly how it sounds in spanish

  • My ignorant gringo ass has another question now: Co-Teek or Co-da-kay?

  • JLRJLR 3,835 Posts
    Co-Teek

    like boutique at the end

  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    My ignorant gringo ass has another question now: Co-Teek or Co-da-kay?

    well, at least you werent thinking it was "co-tee-cue"

  • shitzrshitzr 648 Posts
    OK, well do you remember how Joe Bataan pronounced it when you interviewed him?

    it always irks me when people pronounce his last name "bah tan". i guess it's understandable since the man himself pronounces it that way too.

    does he speak any dialect of filipino at all?

  • spelunkspelunk 3,400 Posts
    Without using IPA and stress markers (linguistics nerd) I can't describe the correct pronounciation, but I understand why on the record it might sound confusing. It's basically fa-nee-ah but there's a tendancy for some native speakers of Spanish to velarize the "n" sound which blends the two last sounds together.

    Way more than you needed to know.

    Correction:[/b] I just talked to my housemate who is a native speaker and confirmed my intuitions: The issue here is that our American phonetic intuitions lead us towards thinking the word has three syllables, when to Spanish speakers, it is ambigous whether it has two or three syllables. I'd suspect that this varies with dialects and I'd be interested to hear Puerto Rican or Nuyorican Spanish speakers pronounce it, or any native speakers of non-Mexican Spanish for that matter.

    I guess a better way of putting it without IPA would be "fan-nyah"

    As for Cotique, it's like "co-ti-kay" but again really hard to describe without audio/IPA.

  • buttonbutton 1,475 Posts
    wheres the accent though? is it FAH-nee-ah or fah-NEE-ah... or even fah-nee-AH

  • JustAliceJustAlice 1,308 Posts
    Fawn-ni-UH

    on some wii-bonics kind of steez.

  • Garcia_VegaGarcia_Vega 2,428 Posts
    You know that video Ako posted where he says "Whats up" 20 times in a row, we need one where someone is saying "Fania"
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