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For instance, Tarkaan is pronounced "tar-con" or "tar-khan". "Khan" is a Hindu word for "King". "Tarkhan" was a title used by a Mongals and Turks over thousand of years ago. Honestly, I don't know how "tar" got to be in there. But CS Lewis may have got the inspiration from ancient history "Tarkhan", though changed the spelling to "Tarkaan." I honestly don't know why "Tarkaan" is used after the name instead of before (must be part of the Calormene culture).
And lot of Calormene names sound interchangeable. In The Horse and His Boy, Aravis mentions that her grandfather's name is Rishti Tarkaan and in The Last Battle, the Calormene captain is Rishda Tarkaan. So it's like there's a Rishti Tarkaan and there's a Rishda Tarkaan.
Statistics: Posted by jasmine_tarkheena — Tue Feb 15, 2022 8:35 pm
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Aravis - Air-uh-viss
Archenland - Arck-en-land
Calormen - Cuh-lor-men
Coriakin - Cor-a-kin
Jadis - Jay-dis
Lasaraleen - Laz-arr-uh-leen
Octesian - Oct-ess-ian
Tisroc - Tiz-rock
Statistics: Posted by cor — Thu Jul 17, 2014 9:18 pm
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Aravis - Air-uh-vis
Archenland - Arken-land
Calormen - I'm not sure if I'm consistent with this one; either Cal-or-men OR Ca-LORE-men
Coriakin - Cor-ee-ah-kin
Jadis - JAH-dis
Lasaraleen - For the longest time I didn't know how to pronounce this, but I think now I would say: Luh-zair-uh-leen
Octesian - Auk-teeze-ian
Tisroc - Tiz-rock
Statistics: Posted by ShiofNarnia — Fri Jul 11, 2014 10:42 pm
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Aravis- Air-ruh-vis
Archenland- Arch-in-land
Calormen- Cal-are-men (Though, the Spanish pronunciation of the word, "calor", meaning hot, makes more sense.)
Coriakin- Core-e-ah-kin
Jadis- Jade-iss
Lasaraleen- Lass-uh-rah-leen
Octesian- Auk-taze-ian
Tisroc- Tiz-rock
Statistics: Posted by HermitoftheNorthernMarch — Fri Jul 11, 2014 10:12 pm
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Statistics: Posted by Ariel.of.Narnia — Mon Jun 30, 2014 5:39 am
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Statistics: Posted by hobbit_of_narnia — Sun Jun 29, 2014 8:50 pm
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Technically, if I was using proper American pronounciation for Ahoshta, it'd be your way, Nora, but I'm lazy and pronounce the "aw" as "uh." I also share the pronunciation of Rabadash with Nora. When it comes to Tisroc, I pronounce it TIZ-rock. But the z is very weak and sounds closer to an sz sound. Difficult to explain, but half-way between a "zz" and a "ss"
Statistics: Posted by Tenethia — Thu Sep 12, 2013 6:54 am
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I also say ARR-a-viss and TIZZ-roc. I say LAZZ-uh-ruh-leen, but I often glide over the second syllable as Ajjie does.
But I think I've goofed up the names of both of the countries, judging by the FOF readings. I have always said KAL-or-men, and they say kah-LOR-men. I also give Archenland a soft ch, like chirp (ARCH-en-land), and I think most people pronounce the ch as k: ARK-en-land.
I emphasize the second syllable of Ahoshta but the first syllable of Tisroc and Tashbaan. Yipes! I speak Calormene with an accent.
Statistics: Posted by miniver — Fri Aug 30, 2013 7:51 pm
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Unfortunately, this isn't the best way to explain pronunciation, since we don't always understand what other people mean by their explanations, and with different accents I get very confused. (Like the a in Shasta and castle sound completely different to me, but might sound the same to people of different accents). Anyway, it's the best we can do so I suppose we can try.
*resists the urge to use IPA symbols*
[end linguistic rant]
I say:
Aravis- Arr-uh-viss
Lasaraleen- Laz-ruh-leen (not sure why I leave out the second syllable - laziness probably)
Ahoshta- Uh-hosh-ta
I also say Tiss-rock, not Tiz-rock
Statistics: Posted by Ajnos — Fri Aug 30, 2013 8:11 am
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Tisroc as tiz-rok
Lasaraleen as lass-are-ah-leen
Tashbaan as tash-bahn
Statistics: Posted by Ariel.of.Narnia — Fri Aug 30, 2013 3:58 am
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