Originally Posted by *Walken After Midnight* [image: View Post] <http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=7d3ed9f905dc3d701aff8a9be8c51c8f&p=19321543#post19321543> Here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqYo798siNo&feature=youtu.be&t=214>'s Ramanujan pronounced by an Indian speaker in an Indian documentary. As a Tamil mathematician, I say, just listen to this clip. In particular, don't make the last syllable "zhahn"; start it with a normal English "j" sound. Source <http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19322430>

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 8:53 PM, Andrew Trevorrow <andrew@trevorrow.com> wrote:

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BTW: in the film they consistently pronounce Ramanujan like "ra-ma-new-jun", which was how I originally learnt to pronounce it, before I was corrected(?) by someone to say it "raman-uh-jun". Does anyone know the definitive way?

The latter sounds right to me. My wife was a Tamilian Indian -- her "surname" (actually her father's name) was Rajagopalan, pronounced "raja-go-palun". But said very quickly, with almost no pause between syllables.

Andrew

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