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Tanzania Pronunciation
Tanzania is pronounced tan-ZAY-nee-uh, IPA /ˌtænˈzeɪnjə/.
tan-ZAY-nee-uh
US /ˌtænˈzeɪnjə/
Syllables: tan · ZAY · nee · uh (4 syllables, stress on syllable 2)
proper noun: An East African country formed in 1964 from Tanganyika and Zanzibar.
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Two Ways to Say Tanzania
The pronunciation changes with the meaning or the part of speech. The form above is the most common; the others are:
- four syllables, tan-zuh-NEE-uh: /ˌtænzəˈniə/ (tan-zuh-NEE-uh)
Tanzania in a Sentence
- Tanzania shares Lake Victoria with Kenya and Uganda.
- They flew into Tanzania for the migration season.
- Kiswahili is the national language of Tanzania.
Common Mispronunciations of Tanzania
Not TAN-zay-nee-uh
Leave the first syllable unstressed and lift the one after it. Both accepted readings put the beat past the tan.
Not tan-ZAN-ee-uh
The second syllable takes a long ay or a long ee, never the short a of the spelling. Tanzanian, the adjective, settles on tan-zuh-NEE-uhn.
Tip: Two readings are current: tan-ZAY-nee-uh, and the four beat tan-zuh-NEE-uh that echoes the name's origins in Tanganyika and Zanzibar.
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