How is Baba Yaga pronounced?

[NewJeffCT]

Just curious - I was looking for a powerful, high level fey type and there was Baba Yaga in DDI adventure tools. I remember her hut from 1E days back before electricity...

I was wondering how do you pronounce the name?

I had always said Bah Buh * Yay Guh

Is that correct? Close? way off the mark?

Thanks

 

[Harlock]

Just curious - I was looking for a powerful, high level fey type and there was Baba Yaga in DDI adventure tools. I remember her hut from 1E days back before electricity...

I was wondering how do you pronounce the name?

I had always said Bah Buh * Yay Guh

Is that correct? Close? way off the mark?

Thanks

I always made it the first and second syllables in each word rhyme. Bah-buh, Yah-guh.

 

[Pour]

I tend for BAH-bah YAH-gah, but I say it kind of fast, so maybe BAH-bah-yaga.

 

[Dioltach]

I've always pronounced it BAH-bah YAH-gah, but given that it's a Russian/Slavic name, perhaps the vowels should be shorter and flatter. Like in babushka, for instance.

 

[Morrus]

Did I hear someone call for the D&D Pronunciation Guide?

Apparently, the answer is Baba Yaga (D): ba-ba YA-guh, according to the article "Ay pronunseeAYshun gyd" by Frank Mentzer in Dragon #93 .

 

[ComradeGnull]

They need do way with instain Baba who mispronounce they yaga.

 

[Herschel]

"grahb fore dee six"

 

[Yora]

It's probably pronounced just as it is written.

But it's imposible to indicate pronounciation for anything but English with english spelling. ^^

In IPA, it's written [baba jaga].

 

[Harlock]

"It's spelled Baba Yaga, but it's pronounced, 'Throat Warbler Mangrove.'"

 

[Yora]

No, that's not Russian. That's Welsh.