What is the hardest place name to pronounce in your country?

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Superb_Emu_9338@reddit

Balassagyarmat, Hódmezővásárhely, Mosonmagyaróvár

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Tricky_Scallion_1455@reddit

With extreme displeasure I must inform you it’s literally ‘Ljubljana’.

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Head-Candidate-9517@reddit

It's so weird cause I'm pretty sure this was never the actual name. I doubt it cause the dialect here is in the Oberkrain family which drops most nj's and lj's

Fun fact: in the Gorenja vas and Poljane (the nj and lj are dropped in these names too lol) they sometimes call it Jeblana. I'm not sure if this is cause of the petty beef that the whole country has with us or if it's an actual thing.

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Tricky_Scallion_1455@reddit

Jeblana 😆 New headcanon name unlocked.

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RegionSignificant977@reddit

It sounds lovely. For us it's easy.

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HumanMan00@reddit

Yes but Slovenians call it Lublana somtimes - it might be out of a joke tho.

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Head-Candidate-9517@reddit

Lublana is how most say it. Most lj's and nj's are dropped by the vast majority of speakers and sometimes even reversed.

Konj -> kojn/kon Kranj -> kran/krajn

Ljubljana is what happens when linguists think they can do whatever they want with a language.

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Defiant_Act_4940@reddit

Get back to me after you try to get an English speaker to pronounce 'Ptuj'.

Ljubljana is just the most common.

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Tricky_Scallion_1455@reddit

It’s easy they just need to spit, no?

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riquelm@reddit

Pljevlja

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Eastern_West12@reddit

Križevci

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vzuzul@reddit

Probably Rašćane Gornje

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flower-power234@reddit

Also Špičkovina ili Osijek

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_whatever_idc@reddit

Sveti Križ Začretje would like a word.

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vzuzul@reddit

Oh yeah, forgot about that

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janjko@reddit

Also their minds blow when they see Krk. Then they say Kirk, but you tell them you have to roll the R.

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nedamisesmisljatime@reddit

Plitvički Ljeskovac, Gornje Vrhovine, Mošćenička Draga... bonus points go to any place that has combination of a consonant and LJ. I can't imagine non slavic people being able to pronounce Okuklje or Civljane for example.

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XenophonSoulis@reddit

With Southern Slavic languages, it's surely one of these words that have few or no vowels.

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Interesting-Work2755@reddit

Good luck with Čvrljevo.

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rocklobster_69@reddit

Gornje Mrzlo Polje Mrežničko

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Few-Interview-1996@reddit

For foreigners? Söğütlüçeşme, I'd guess.

For Turks, apparently the street named Bangabandhu Şeyh Muciburrahman Bulvarı. :)

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HumanMan00@reddit

I know thst first thing has a public drinking water.

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-hey_hey-heyhey-hey_@reddit

It used to :( The çeşme of söğütlüçeşme was demolished a fairly long time ago

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HumanMan00@reddit

So its called after a češma and it has no češma. Yup Anatolia is Balkan.

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EvenMathematician874@reddit

Сюгютлу чешме?

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Teodosij@reddit

Söğütlüçeşme

I don't speak Turkish, and knowing your "special letters", that's pretty easy to pronounce. Y'all gotta try harder

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HArdaL201@reddit

O nasıl bir isim lol

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WeakZookeepergame155@reddit

Čeljigovići

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FordFreeState@reddit

Hrvatska is pretty hard for foreigners to pronounce. Krk, Bršćanovci, Prgomet are also hard for foreigners

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redikan@reddit

Xërxë

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Motor_Ad6523@reddit

Söğütlüçeşme , türkoğlu , gökçeören , ılgın , höşköş (for foreigns)

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treba_dzemper@reddit

hoškoš isn't that hard when you get used to the ö umlaut

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kerelberel@reddit

Suh-gut-lu-che-shme?

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tipoftheiceberg1234@reddit

Velešići (Veleshichi, except the ch is a soft ch)

Baščaršija (Bashcharshiya)

Brčko (Burr-chko, except you have to roll the r so there’s not really a clear “uh” sound. It’s just Brrrrchko. The r is the vowel)

There’s a ton more I’m missing, but Slavic languages are famous for consonant clusters.

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treba_dzemper@reddit

If anything it would be some of those places that are equal part Turkish-difficult and Slavic-difficult, Kujundžikovac or Teskeredžića kula or similar. I am certain there's some bonkers place somewhere in Bosnia that even locals break their tongue to pronounce correctly.

Brčko is a good call, unassuming but probably difficult for non native speakers.

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djavolja_rabota@reddit

velešići seems to be the opposite of a hard pronunciation, you got a regular vowel-consonant-vowel-consonant sequence, and the two special characters are only hard when you don't know what you're looking at, the sounds they make have equivalents in most languages.

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hulladaemon@reddit

Jászfelsőszentgyörgy [ˈjaːsfɛlʃøːsɛntɟørɟ]

jász - Iazyg (with a capital i)
felső - upper
szent - saint
György - George

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RegionSignificant977@reddit

Sungurlare (Bulgarian: Сунгурларе, pronounced [suŋɡurˈɫarɛ])

The place is popular with Rakia making and the brand is Sungurlarska. And we have a joke about that. A man orders 9 Sungurlarska grozdova (grape rakija) at the pub. Waiter asks why he ordered 9, and he replied "I can't say Sungurlarska after the third"

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LegitimateClock6215@reddit

Sungur:

n. (Old Turk. singkur) [The word has passed into neighboring languages such as Arabic and Persian, and also into Hungarian] A bird of prey of the falcon type, a white falcon

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