Cote D'livore

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I would like to know if anyone knows how to pronounce "Cote D'livoire" it is a city in Africa

Matthewg · Accepted Answer

Hi Sess,

"Côte d'Ivoire" is the French name for the Ivory Coast, a region in Africa.

Anonymous · Answer

well how do you pronounce is, like how would you say it?

Anonymous · Answer

Coat dee-vwarre

Adomi · Answer

Hi Sessered,
The spelling actually is COTE D' IVOIRE, and it's not a city, but a country(unless there is a city there with bears the same name )
For the pronunciation, well, I'm not good at phonetic but it go like this:

COTE = COAT as in coat
D'IVOIRE = DEE as in Bruce Lee, but with a D or simply the fourth letter of the English alphabet, D. , VOU as in Voodoo, AAR as in the 18th letter on the English alphabet, R.

So it goes like this: COAT D VOU R, or COAT DEE VOUAAR

Anonymous · Answer

I saw that someone said that Côte d'Ivoire is the french name for the Ivory Coast but actually, the governement of Côte d'Ivoire says that in all lauguages it should be called Côte d'Ivoire rather than the Ivory Coast. Even though Côte d'Ivoire translates to Ivory Coast, the government of Côte d'Ivoire requests it is called Côte d'Ivoire. just an fyi

Conchita57 · Answer

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01cite10Anonymous12cite10I saw that someone said that Côte d'Ivoire is the french name for the Ivory Coast but actually, the governement of Côte d'Ivoire says that in all lauguages it should be called Côte d'Ivoire rather than the Ivory Coast. Even though Côte d'Ivoire translates to Ivory Coast, the government of Côte d'Ivoire requests it is called Côte d'Ivoire. just an fyi12br
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10I wonder if anyone complies with this request, which was made quite a few years ago. In Spanish, the name Côte d'Ivoire is also (and still) literally translated as 'Costa de Marfil'.02br
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00By the way, and unless you want to say it with an English accent (which is cute, of course), Côte d'Ivoire is pronounced [co:t] (as in 'caught') [di'vwa:R], bearing in mind that the French 'r' is guttural and consonants in that language are much gentler than their English counterparts.0-

Marvin A. · Answer

0>> [co:t] (as in 'caught') <<02br
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00Hmmm. Do you actually mean a tense vowel? Not many people pronounce "caught" with /o/. In fact, in Western North America, it's actually pronounced /kAt/. In RP, I believe it's something like /O:/. 0-

Conchita57 · Answer

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01cite10Marvin A.12cite10>> [co:t] (as in 'caught') <<12br
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10Hmmm. Do you actually mean a tense vowel? Not many people pronounce "caught" with /o/. In fact, in Western North America, it's actually pronounced /kAt/. In RP, I believe it's something like /O:/.12blockquote

10I knew I should have specified! The sound I meant is [o:] as in RP or Standard British English. 02br
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00Now, said with a Southern French accent, it becomes [cot] (as in 'cot' -- again, in British English) with a small schwa a the end of both words.0-

Marvin A. · Answer

0>> Now, said with a Southern French accent, it becomes [cot] <<02br
00>> The sound I meant is [o:] as in RP or Standard British English. <<02br
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00Now you're really confusing me. Are you using IPA, or similar system for transcription? The letter "c" in the IPA, X-SAMPA, and Kirshenbaum transcription systems is a voiceless palatal plosive, that is only found in Hungarian. The letter "o" in IPA is the "o" sound in the word "coat" in North Central dialects of NAE--most dialects of England English use a diphthong for the "o" sound. The vowel that is used to transcribe the "au" in "caught" in RP is not /o:/, but is /ɔː/, the long open-mid back rounded vowel.02br
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00[cot] (I'm assuming /kot/), would be how someone from Minnesota pronounces the word "coat". It is not how an RP speaker pronounces the word "cot".02br
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00The [ ] and / / marks represent IPA or X-SAMPA transcription.02br
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00I would pronounce "cote d'ivoire" as /kot divwA/.0-

Conchita57 · Answer

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01cite10Marvin A.12cite10>> Now, said with a Southern French accent, it becomes [cot] <<12br
10>> The sound I meant is [o:] as in RP or Standard British English. <<12br
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10Now you're really confusing me. Are you using IPA, or similar system for transcription? The letter "c" in the IPA, X-SAMPA, and Kirshenbaum transcription systems is a voiceless palatal plosive, that is only found in Hungarian. The letter "o" in IPA is the "o" sound in the word "coat" in North Central dialects of NAE--most dialects of England English use a diphthong for the "o" sound. The vowel that is used to transcribe the "au" in "caught" in RP is not /o:/, but is /ɔː/, the long open-mid back rounded vowel.12br
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10[cot] (I'm assuming /kot/), would be how someone from Minnesota pronounces the word "coat". It is not how an RP speaker pronounces the word "cot".12br
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10The [ ] and / / marks represent IPA or X-SAMPA transcription.12br
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10I would pronounce "cote d'ivoire" as /kot divwA/.12br
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10Except for the [c], which should indeed be a [k], I’m using the phonetic symbols I’ve used all my life, as I learnt them 35 years ago from the Oxford Progressive English Course, by A. S. Hornby (EFL/ESL coursebooks have come a long way since then!).00 00If you replace my ‘o’ in [o] and [o:] with 00[00 (missing image) 00] 00and [00ɔː]00, it should be less confusing for you.02br
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00The French ‘o’ in ‘Côte’ isn’t a diphthong – it rhymes with ‘caught’ in RP.00 00The Provençals, however, say it as ‘cot’ in RP.0-

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