Talk:Haumea (mythology)

Pele vs. Pere
Pele and Pere were listed as two different daughters, so I deleted Pere and fact tagged the whole thing. kwami (talk) 04:33, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Pronounciation?
In Talk:Haumea (dwarf planet) is an ongoing discussion about the pronounciation. A user who is learning Hawaiian language and culture suggests that /haʊˈmeːə/ or /haʊˈmeːa/ would be closest to the true Hawaiian pronounciation while /eia/ or /eja/ is only used by English-speaking people who for some reason won't or couldn't pronounce /ea/. He says that Hawaiian is fairly phonetic, i.e. the latin letters used for transcription closely reproduce the phonetic transcription (as it is often the case for German). Therefore there is no reason for the "j". However, in case of the dwarf planet Haumea the (English/American-dominated) astronomical society prefers the more English-like pronounciation with the additional diphtonge. Any other opinions?--SiriusB (talk) 12:17, 23 September 2008 (UTC)


 * In wiki-en, all pronunciations are English unless stated otherwise. The name of a DP should be English, though possibly with the original afterwards. As for Hawaiian, there is an automatic epenthetic [j] between front vowels (i, e) and non-front vowels (a, o, u). It's just not written. Yes, Hawaiian is fairly phonetic, but not truly phonetic. It is, however, truly phonemic, AFAIK, and the phonemic transcription would be, not *. (Not unless we've misspelled the name and it's really Haumēa.) Check out Hawaiian phonology. kwami (talk) 18:36, 23 September 2008 (UTC)