Square Enix uses the bastardized American pronunciation “man-nuh” for the English dubs, which is not incorrect, but the original pronunciation is “maw-nuh”
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Man-uh vs maw-nuh … I’ll stick with the first one
Today I learned that it’s an indigenous Māori word, and as such we should probably be respectful and stick with how they pronounce it.
And here I thought it was derived and bastardized from “manna” the bread. TIL
Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised. I love learning things about indigenous cultures.
Which, to be fair, is also derived from a word which would be most accurately (with English vowels) pronounced as mah-nuh. Although at this point “manna” is definitively also a word of English whose correct pronunciation is with /æ/.
