I wonder - are those letters likely to be online anywhere?

A lot of readers, it turns out, are of the opinion that just like English apostrophes, they shouldn’t be pronounced at all. But no-one’s ever really explained how to pronounce them. But further reading turns up something more interesting: in various Romanticisations of east Asian dialects, the apostrophe indicates aspiration of the consonant either following or preceding it. Having said that, "ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh" is what Cthulhu's worshippers were chanting in Call Of Cthulhu, so that bit at least must be more or less pronouncable by humans. Now, mid-word apostrophes have become incredibly common in fantasy and horror, thanks in equal part to Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders series, Star Trek, and Lovecraft. Try choosing a different name, Sorry!

I might have to steal this someday when I get around to writing that Canadian lovecraftian horror story. I’m currently producing multiple short films set in a fictional universe which has a Cthulhu Mythos backdrop. My assumption has always been that they’re meant to be pronounced with a click of the tongue - R_click_lyeh. or post as a guest. Congrats! Secondly, trying this in practise just makes all your eldrich chants sound like you’re on Sauciehall St in Glasgow at about 2am on a Saturday night.). Correct way to pronounce the dish name paella in Spanish is. Just remember - even if it seems easy, don’t pronounce Hastur. I’ve always loved the Mythos, and I haven’t made a film using it since the Eschaton movies nearly 20 years ago, so I felt it was about time to go back. Congrats! Play Stop Record again Contribute . We recommend you to try Safari.

For more than a decade /R/HORROR has been reddit.com's gateway to all things Horror: from movies & TV, to books & games. You can write that shit, Howard, but you can’t say it. I suspect their accent was terrible, though - I can imagine Cthulhu lying there dreaming going "Oh, for fuck's sake, guys, it's mglw’nafh! Please That's a rather cool theory! New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. All Rights Reserved, {{app['fromLang']['value']}} -> {{app['toLang']['value']}}, Pronunciation of Rlyeh with 1 audio pronunciations, Audio Pronunciation removed from collection, International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and Phonetic spelling.

Oops! Crowdsourced audio pronunciation dictionary for 89 languages, with meanings, synonyms, sentence usages, translations and much more. The chants, along with the names of the various entities in Lovecraft's works, are actually just the closest approximation humans can make to the alien languages' vocalizations. Keep up. Log in or Recording. R/HORROR, known as Dreadit by our subscribers is the premier horror entertainment community on Reddit.

I suspect their accent was terrible, though - I can imagine Cthulhu lying there dreaming going "Oh, for fuck's sake, guys, it's mglw’nafh! Click the record button again to finish recording. You have reached the maximum limit.

Sounds about right to me. You can try again. Very interesting - that's pretty similar to the aspirated consonant! Only properly pronounced by an alien-god-being-monster, like Cthulhu. Now, that’s a super-unusual sound that only comes from some extremely old languages - Welsh; which derives from P-Celtic, which arrived in the British Isles during the Bronze or Iron ages; Zulu; various Native American languages; and a few others. Unfortunately, this device does not support voice recording, Click the record button again to finish recording. A poisoned well if you’re trying to sound sinister. You can contribute this audio pronunciation of Rlyeh to HowToPronounce dictionary. I’ve always loved the Mythos, and I haven’t made a film using it since the Eschaton movies nearly 20 years ago, so I felt it was about time to go back. So back to the drawing board there. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. That works for a lot of reasons. You've got the pronunciation of Rlyeh right.

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I’m currently producing multiple short films set in a fictional universe which has a Cthulhu Mythos backdrop. Lovecraft's explanation in one of his letters (the collections I have of them aren't indexed, so I can't look it up) was that in his mind it wasn't humanly pronounceable, but you could kind of get it right by deeply coughing out "rool-yay.". Dictionary Collections Challenges ... R-lyeh rlye-h. Record the pronunciation of this word in your own voice and play it to listen to how you have pronounced it.

Pronunciation guide: Learn how to pronounce R'lyeh in English with native pronunciation. Now, the Cthulhu Mythos is famous for a lot of things - tentacles, overuse of the words “Blasphemous” and “Squamous”, and dubious racial politics amongst others.

Its creatures and settings are infamously unpronouncable. I remember reading the closest way to say C'thulhu the way Lovecraft imagined it was by saying and keeping your tongue firmly stuck to the roof of your mouth.

(Or my ears, anyway). So How Do You Pronounce “R’lyeh”, Anyway. How hard is that to say?". Seems like your pronunciation of Rlyeh is not correct. Pronunciation of Rlyeh with 1 audio pronunciation and more for Rlyeh. However, there are two problems with that.