Mamiya pronounciation

Would someone be so kind as to tell me the correct way to pronouce the Mamiya name. I have heard

both MA MI YA with a long i, and also as MA ME YA with the i pronounced with more of a long E sound.

Anyone know for sure?

Thanks, Steve

I have always used and heard the pronounciation of MA MEyA with a Long E and a weak y.(update)I just called a friend who was a Mamiya rep, and he said agreed, your second and my pronounciation is correct.

It should be VERY straight forward as its a Japanese company.

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ma mi mu me mo &<br>

ya - yu - yo

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so...

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"ma" as mar in march<br>

"mi" as in me<br>

"ya" as ya in yakult<br><div></div>

agree with Craig. When transliterated into Japanese, "i" is either pronounced as "ee", or in certain circumstances, almost dropped entirely (yamashita sound more like yamashta) ...... it is never pronounced like the "i" in "like".

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"ma" as mar in march

"mi" as in me

"ya" as ya in yakult

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Where is the accent? MA-mi-ya? Or, ma-MI-ya? Or ... ?

There is no accent - all syllables should be of equal accent and length.

Anyway, almost no matter how you pronounce it, it's a lot more correct than how people say Tokyo...

Mom Ma Mia.... thats-a some spicy meat-a ball !!!

"My Mamiya, my Mamiya, my Mamiya, let me go.<br>

Beelzebub, has a devil put aside for me, <br>

for me, for meeee..."

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-from "Bohemian Snapsody" - freely after Queen.

In the South its sometimes like Aunt Jemima syrup, or New Orleans Jambalaya; or whatever. Around the world I have heard Mam *EEE* ah and Ma *MY* ah and have been *corrected* either way; or others; and I have owned a Mamiya C3 since before 220 was invented. When working in Japan I never heard all these syllables been louder, longer or butchered like the USA user does. Like New Orleans; a local might rattle it off as new or le ns; a yankee new or LEENS:) ; with the LEENs so out of wack that your know "you are not from around here" . Then one can be in Los Angeles; and be driving on Supple Veda; like Velveda.

Mahm-mee- ya.

<i>Anyway, almost no matter how you pronounce it, it's a lot more correct than how people say Tokyo..</i>

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Toukyou

1 I'm no speaker of Japanese nor am I very deeply trained as a linguist, but as some have hinted, I understand that each syllable should be stressed equally, that is it would be neither MOM-ee-ya or mom-EE-ya but mom-ee-ya.

 

2 Other languages have dipthongs or vowel combinations, but one really tricky thing for non-native English speakers is to deal with the fact that almost every vowel in English is really a combination of two (or in the South, sometimes three) vowel sounds. Thus nearly everywhere else, "i" is a pure vowel pronounced like a short "ee". Our so-called long i is actually a combination of ah-ee, for example. If this is gibberish, go to line 10

 

10 Anyway, what I am saying is that if in doubt always pronounce any 'i' in any foreign word as ee, not ai.

Here's the definitive answer:

 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WY57jGNCN8Q

 

Now can we get back to asking (and answering) sensible questions?

MommieYa is what i have always pronounced as. interesting to see haw many variations we can get.

This thread gave me some really funny ideas how people read each other's names here. :)

Actually, most if not all the above are wrong.

It is pronounced "ma" as in "mat" (UK English, not US), "mi" as in "me" (shorter though), and "ya" as in "hat" (except with 'y' in place of 'h' and UK English). All with equal stress and no up/down intonations. Japanese has to be one of the most easy languages to pronounce but yet, hardly no foreign people seem to be able to get it right...

I hope that this adds value to the conversation.

 

Mamma Mia............That's a Spicy Meatball!

As long as we're going to worry about how to pronounce a brand name, has anyone noticed that "pronounciation" is incorrect? It is "pronunciation." (No "o" in the second syllable.)

"has anyone noticed that "pronounciation" is incorrect?"

 

Yes, sometimes I just have to pause and think "this is English, don't write it in the logical way"... ;)

OK, got it. Just ordered a Mamiya, too.

 

I have several of what I and everyone else seems to call "Ni (long i) cons".

 

I have for a long time thought they were really "Knee cones".

 

Anyone know?