summary sri lanka weeks ago asked following question could somebody please tell sri lanka written pronounced spanish pronunciation uniform across latin america reason asking one students peruvian told pronounced esrilanka yet seemed recall mexican told sirlanka see wrong partly responses received en reponse ton mail sur la prononciation de sri lanka en espagnol je peux dire qu en amerique du sud chili argentine prononce et ecrit siri lanka latin american friends tell sri lanka pronounced one would expect sri lanka dentalalveolar r velar nasal say spelled spelled en respuesta su pregunta sobre la escritura la pronunciacion de sri lanka en espanol le puedo decir lo siguiente en cuanto la escritura si equivoco se mantiene el original sri lanka sin embargo en cuanto la pronunciacion existe la tendencia general intercalar una de apoyo entre la la r siri ello excluye que ciertos individuos considerandose mas cultos mas sabios hagan el esfuerzo de pronunciar sri esfuerzo que rompe con la tendencia del espanol de evitar toda liquida esfuerzo por consiguiente considerado natural con respecto la pronunciacion en latinoamerica puedo decirle gran cosa pero imagino que tambien se ha generalizado la tendecia fonetica intercalar la vocal pronounce ezri la nka r trill n velar nasal normal speech rapid speech z assimilates following rhotic producing sound intermediate quality assimilation well known fact spanish phonetics nonaspirating dialects described instance navarro tomas standard manual slow speech esri without voicing spain aspirating dialects ehri eri seville spain write name country sri lanka pronounce sri lanka might also pronounce esri lanka due fact nt like sequences sc onsets words may already realized listened spanish people speaking english many would say espein instead spein argentina sri lanka pronounced siri lanka r sound according ipa postdental percusive sound n velar called daughter writer la jornada local newspaper works economics section said spelling like english although supposes purist publications probably change k c wrote sri lanka piece paper asked 5 people office pronounce confirmed suspicion people pronounce spanish two rather marked e beginning spanish phonology would require st instance rest us tend sonorize would expected mexican spanish anyway conclusion mine speakers spanish 1st lang pronounced normally worked number argentine journalists never noticed anything worth noting means probably pronounce penaja wkuvx1 wku edu juan antonio pena far spelling sri lanka spanish orthography asian country far phonetics thing worth noting insert e e sound beginning word sri spanish words beginning stop consonant spain name state written english sri lanka geographical name island ceilan accent pronunciation tv broadcasting varies people says sri lanka others esri lanka r stands multiple trill rr spanish sound perro hear spain use pronounce name old island ceilan two different ways common pronunciation esrri lan ka use double r spanish hard r n velarized nasal sound another pronunciation common former siri lan ka know origin one impression esrilanka common spain sirilanka prevalent south america obviously absolute many thanks responded marc picard