Pronunciation of Hala

Pitched Black · Post by **Pitched Black** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:55 pm

I had an argument with a friend a while back about the pronunciation of Hala.

There's 3 different ways (that I use anyways) of pronouncing an 'a' so that gives 9 differnent ways of saying it.

The three different ways are:
- eh, hey, play
- all, hall, fall
- ack, plaque, pat

Apparently, the proper way would be Hey'lah because having a consonant between two vowels gives the first it's long-sound. Halo is the most similar english word I could think of and dictionary.reference.com says it's hA'lO ('a' from pay and 'o' from toe) so it could be hay'lay too.

I use hah'lah (both 'a's from pat) because the word Hala is arabic (for hello or welcome or something close to that) and it just sounds more arabic to me.

http://www.hejleh.com/tree/names.html
This is a page on arabic pronounciation and it gives hand as an example of the ha sound. So I guess my guess at hah'lah sounding arabic is a little off...

http://www.geocities.com/dhc2020/hawaiian.htm
In hawaiian, lauhala (leaves from a hala tree (cool, it's a tree too)) is pronounced lau hah' lah so the hala part would just be hah'lah.

http://www.erowid.org/plants/amanitas/a ... otes.shtml
They say something about khalakuta; I don't think they know either.

So how do you guys say it?

Void Hamlet · Post by **Void Hamlet** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:38 pm

I have always pronounced it ['hala] - like I pronounce Valhalla, stressing on the "ha" syllable; "a" like in "argument", just a bit shortened

Enverex · Post by **Enverex** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:10 am

hal'ah

e'Kieron · Post by **e'Kieron** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 3:10 am

Ha - La

Xanthalas · Post by **Xanthalas** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:03 am

I thought it was Hala.. as in Hala at me later. or I always screw up and it makes Sara Hala at me. Of course.... that could be wrong... Why dont we just prounounce it with text? as in Hala... or if you have an accent like I do say Hala. its easy.

((really though. I think from a gramatical point of view in modern english it wouild most likely be pronounced Hall Uh. not sure though as I dont studdy linguistics.. I do other things.))

Enverex · Post by **Enverex** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:20 am

Xanthalas wrote:I thought it was Hala.. as in Hala at me later. or I always screw up and it makes Sara Hala at me. Of course.... that could be wrong... Why dont we just prounounce it with text? as in Hala... or if you have an accent like I do say Hala. its easy.

((really though. I think from a gramatical point of view in modern english it wouild most likely be pronounced Hall Uh. not sure though as I dont studdy linguistics.. I do other things.))

Thats Holla

Post by **Arkon** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 11:56 am

Correct pronunciation is Hah lah

Psye Shaar · Post by **Psye Shaar** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:19 pm

Well Tris just pronounces it 'Home'

But Hah-Lah always seemed the only proper way to pronounce it... *shrugs*

Idonia · Post by **Idonia** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:16 pm

I don't really know why but I always feel kind of weird when I say Hala (Which I pronounce hah'lah) because it sounds like I'm one of those rappers.. "Hollah!"

slave_of_emotions · Post by **slave_of_emotions** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:19 pm

I always say hala, can not imagine anything else since it make me always think of Valhala

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