Talk:Tbilisi/Archives/2015/August

Pronunciation of Tbilisi
Pronunciation please? Preferably IPA? —Keenan Pepper 20:31, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Nobody knows? Come on, people! —Keenan Pepper 20:32, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Pronounciation should probably go in the first paragraph, and should be in IPA. This is typically the style. Doyel 14:08, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Hate to whinge, but no one in the English language world says Tbilisi. They're not able to. Instead they say Tiblisi, obviously technically incorrect but we should be descriptive not prescriptive. Thoughts?


 * Well, some do try. It's not impossible.  However, I've been led to understand that the "t" is not given its full value, and "Bil-EE-si" is closer to the money than what most journos are saying these days.  --  JackofOz (talk) 22:15, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Please provide the original pronunciation, IPA or a simple romanisation. --Atitarev (talk) 23:39, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

The pronunciation is given in IPA now and an sound file is attached. But the two are quite different. Whereas the IPA version puts the stress on the second syllable (-li-), the sound file suggests the stress is on the first syllable (Tbi-). What is correct? — N-true (talk) 16:07, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


 * You were right - the IPA pronunciation has been corrected to reflet the correct pronunciation of Tbilisi in Georgian. The Georgian pronunciation of Tbilisi is t'bilissi, with a stressed "bee" sound and a semy-stressed "see" ending. As seenon https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tbilisi.ogg and on http://pt.forvo.com/word/tbilisi/ and on http://pt.forvo.com/word/%E1%83%97%E1%83%91%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98 179.176.182.5 (talk) 18:57, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:06, 2 August 2015 (UTC)