How is Baba Yaga pronounced?

[Herschel]

Or Yiddish.

 

[Fifth Element]

Although Russian often has some subtleties to their vowels that are hard to transcribe, this one seems pretty straight-forward. The suggestions above seem fine.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

"Roll for initiative, monkeyboy!"

 

[Belgos]

I dated a lovely girl from the Ukraine once and had asked her about this very thing.

After listening to be me mangle it (I was pronouncing it as 'Bar-Bar Yar-Gar'), her eyes lit up:

'Ah! You mean BuhBah YugGah!'

I'll take this over a pronunciation guide any day.

 

[Umbran]

"Kneel before my chicken-legged hut!"

 

[Aeolius]

Ah! You mean BuhBah YugGah!'

I think that's the pronunciation they used on Lost Girl, when I had the misfortune of channel-surfing and watching a few minutes of it, the other day. I cannot like that show to save my life.

 

[Holy Bovine]

Just the way it is spelt of course!

Su-san!

 

[blargney the second]

Baba Yaga totally just got added to my Kingmaker game.

 

[Tonguez]

Baba Yaga totally just got added to my Kingmaker game.

Baba Yaga should be compulsory for EVERY game

she takes her rightful place as enigmatic Mother Goddess imc - her avatars include the Winter Hag, Mother Death and an old crone known as the Old Rhyming Lady.

Pronounceitright.com link

 

[radja]

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].

it's impossible to indicate pronunciation for english with english spelling too. This is a language in which you could pronounce ghoti as fish.