Talk:Persians (Age of Empires II)/@comment-14.2.145.101-20141006053010

The way they pronounce some words seems a little off, at least according to what someone Persian I know has said.

Apparently the "i" sound in the word "Ari" is pronounced more like what we would just write as "uh" or maybe "eh", i.e. the vowel sound is closer to the "indeterminate" or "unstressed" vowel sound, at least based on the way she was saying it.

I have also seen it romanised as "Are" rather than "Ari" on the internet.

Is "Ari" more like ancient Persian or does this have something to do with a