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Old 08-18-2006, 04:43 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ricardoramalho View Post
Maria do Ceu Pereira Pinto Ramalho = [Here "ceu" in prunounced as "ko", not as "so", right?]
ماريا دو كو پيريرا پينتو راماليو

How do you say "Céu" ?
Céu in Portuguese it's Sky in English.

The sound of the words is like this :
C = ReCeive
E = Education
U = StUden
Hi ricardo,

When you make Maria into ماريا, you don't really translate the name.
You actually only transliterate : you put the sounds into a different alphabet, here the Arabic one.
When you want Céu in Arabic, you could not really put the 'e' as in educate into that script, as Arab does not have that sound.
You would have to make it سيو, which would (could) be pronounced like the english "seeyou"
Céu = Heaven = سماء
= more or less pronounced 'samaa'

Cheers,

Jazz
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