How To Pronounce Eyjafjallajökull - The Icelandic Volcano Glacier

[chibisephi]

I can pronounce it perfectly until the very last tongue sound my mouth just does not want to do it.

[DangerD205]

amidoinitright

[christiansketchman]

eyjafjallajökull

eyja = island

fjalla = mountain

jökull = glacier

[BlueVane]

Ayvlackvlove!

[robpr26]

heyeevaffaohlook?

[xolkan1]

lol that sounds so funny.

[Runzkii]

Obviously the language that which they speak in the midst of Hell itself. Leads one to a simple conclusion as to the origin of the Icelandic people - also explains the volcanoes.  .....omg chill out just j/k lolol

[ste1nunn]

@Runzkii

we are olso Vikings

so were Horiblylanguegeblevikings from hell right =þ

[92Dreak92]

sounds like 'hey wat leuk'

which is dutch for 'hey that's fun'

coincidence? i think not

[brianxbang]

ayeyouradouche

did i say it right?

[aggaNibbi]

haha það er svo fyndið að heyra fólk reyna að seigja þetta

[jbjaguar]

Its pretty easy, eya-fyad-low-kuld

[Enuxxx]

über lök?

[winamlikenijas]

EYSASAJDUK!

[filathor]

why cant people just use the name on the Mountain In stead.. Its Eyjafjöll/Eyjafjall/Øyfjell(in Norwegian) the Glacier is not having an eruption,.

Jökull= glacier(in Norwegian Isbre`.)

so the name of the mountain glacier is easy to pronounce Eyja-fjatla-jøkutl) but its the Mountain that lies under that is the volcano. Eyjafjöll.(Eyjafjøtl)

In Norwegian the name is like this, Øyfjäll isbreen / Øyfjell vulkanen .. easy huh

[Fibah]

in writing so it would sound right in english it'd be something like ey-ya fhjaddla juhhkuddl

[TheDudeCalledIzzy]

WOW some people can be really stupid its not that hard ........

im from icland

[slevaa]

@TheDudeCalledIzzy

Of course its not hard if you're from iceland.. stupid..

[Zeldakitteh]

@slevaa Being from Iceland does not necessarily make it easy, I believe.

Loads of people from England really have issues with their typing...:

"Could of", "Their stupid", "Your a idiot"

... Seriously. D=

[slevaa]

@Zeldakitteh Typing and pronouncing are not the same thing..

Im sure many people from Iceland have issues with spelling Eyjafjallajøkull, but i doubt anyone has a problem pronouncing it..

[Ylfii]

@slevaa Actually, Eyjafjallajökull is not that hard to spell for Icelanders. It is just three common words combined to one. 

[aggaNibbi]

@TheDudeCalledIzzy lol ég líka =D

[skaptiben]

why dont u try to say it insted of playing a tape

[vixorbaj]

whats that damn farting sound at the end?P????????

[omgcowshaveudders]

EYA VITELA YOKUKT?!

[gretaappel]

perfect n___n

[kouray]

It doesn't help AT ALL !

[godandaginn123]

@EndlessLove1905 hahahaha xD lol

[edithblue]

Eia f leuluk? :)

[scooterinnc84]

Do you know what's crazy, I just noticed in the name of the volcano... the name alla is in the middle of it and alla is the god that Osama Bin Laden and the terrorists worship. It's just coincidental, so don't freak out.

[Fibah]

@scooterinnc84 no, Allah is their god ya cluts

[hellokittypink27]

@Fibah the judaic and christian god toooo

[DezparE]

@scooterinnc84 but the "alla" part is a part of "fjalla" which means mountain, and in the word "alla" means "god" in some middle east language, so technically it doesn't have to be a different god, they just happen to have another language with different words from english. The same god? Maybe they just worship him/her/it in a different way than the christians do.

[bjarkif]

@DezparE what the hell are you talking about ? XD

[DezparE]

@bjarkif I was replying to another comment

[uudo]

@scooterinnc84 I think you're on to something here! Report this to the rest of the internet!

[alyoucha]

Eyvadloyuk - that's how it sounds to me, so the phonetic transcription is really useless.

[Bern52hard]

I regularly converse with cockroaches (they swim in the lava there) and they tell me it's : " I Jafja! - Alla yo I Kuill!" , so it sounds like the volcano is threatening us!

[ZequeZ1]

Its eyafallajokull =D xD

[kittydulla]

@ZequeZ1

it's Eyjafjallajökull

[Kyuudousha]

Bogus.

I've been given the International Phonetic Language rendering by an Icelander - eiːja-fjatla-jœkʰytl̥ ( Sort of - 'Eh-ya fjatla joh-kult')

[snazn]

To me, it sounds something like "Hey ya valet a gook" without the H at the beginning.

[davibrass]

imagine, Daniel Tammet learned to speak this language in a week. I cant learn to speak this word!

[burgesspeanut]

WHAhhhh, say it even more slowly please. Thanks for putting this online.

[CPnieuws]

Ejaflatlajukol.

[raggastebba]

Eyjafjallajökull :) it is difficult to pronounce i know

[SatanPanda]

someone who can speak icelandic and can also annunciate needs to get on wikipedia and put up a better sound file

[lesorciercalifornien]

Hey flatten your yogurt

[AndyUnwritten]

Eeeavalook?

[kiwolive]

icelanders tend to slur some syllables together with such long words but i can personally hear each syllable because i'm used to hearing icelandic.

ey-ya-fyatll-ay-eu-keutll is the best i can spell it for english speaking people to pronounce it.

[IAmDonar]

If you close your eyes and listen it is not really that hard.

[catherineyronwode]

AID la-lay-lick?

[davolfman]

Eijazaidez?

[VanOostijen]

Is that its name? no wonder why the volcano is pissed.

[Eyezland]

the indian's attempt is nwhere near the sound it should be - please stop trying, you are doing damage to the name - i am icelanding born and bred and know thi

[weetiewildrose]

What he says sounds like eeya-zaza-lego to me lol

[andyrob]

Any place name with six syllables is going to have some of them blurred together by local people who need to refer to it frequently enough. They way the people who live nearby pronounce it then becomes the correct version, although sometimes this can be reversed by incomers.

[grogxz]

@andyrob Understood. But how would a person pronounce is that speaks pefect islandic but never heard the short version before. So to say the reverted version if someone reads it from a book the first time and has no knowledge that a volcano with that name exists.

[rbnn]

What he is saying doesn't sound anything like what is spelled. I don't here any "tl" sound in the fjalla part. and he doesn't pronounce the "jo" at all.

[TheKst]

@rbnn I'm not from Iceland so I don't know how they pronounce it, but in my country I know of several examples of places that are written differently than what people actually say.

[gaellerivage]

pour Francophone il me semble que la prononciation phonétique ressemble à : Everlew uk en prononçant un peu à la néerlanais le ever lew uk qui pourrait m'aider si je me trompe merci

[quietpopcorn]

@nathanjamesbaker Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that when there are two L's in a row, like in Eyjafjallajökull, the second L sounds like a T.

[vdesmodan]

@quietpopcorn ...it's actually the first of the two L's that gets the "T" pronounciation....

[quietpopcorn]

@vdesmodan Ah, thanks for clearing that up. I don't claim to know Icelandic, but if I have to, I can read it...a little bit. I must have been pronouncing things wrong. :P

[halldorpd]

@nathanjamesbaker This is the correct pronounciation, in the video