Pronunciation...

[justuschickens.livejournal.com]

How in the world do you pronounce Athenais? It actually has dots over the i, but I forget how to make that character. Whee.

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[dingastar.livejournal.com]

ath-in-aeis

[justuschickens.livejournal.com]

what syllable is accented?

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

I'd say Uh theen eye ees.

[dingastar.livejournal.com]

the middle one i think

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

i've never seen it, but i'd probably pronounce it ath-enn-ay

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

I would say Ath-eh-neigh or Ath-eh-nie, but with dots, Ath-eh-nay-ihs.

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

With this pronunciation there's 4 syllables, I think it'd be the 3rd.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

If there's an accent on the i, then it's Ah-THEN-na-ees, or something along those lines.

Thinbabynames (http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Athenais) pronounces it A-the-nais, but since there's an accent on the 'i' in your spelling, the -nais part would be pronounced as -na-ees, not 'ais'.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

In italian, I'd pronounce it Ah-ten-AH-ee-ss.
In english, Ath-EEN-ay-ee-ss

[chirpygirly.livejournal.com]

It's "A(as in the word add)-the(not like 'tha', more like th+ how the french pronounce the letter e)-nye-ess(as in the letter s)"

The ï (made by pressing alt+code number 0239) is Latin and used like so:

Ï is a symbol used in various languages written with the Latin alphabet.

In Afrikaans, Dutch and French, <ï> is used where two vowels are next to one another and indicates the correct emphasis and pronunciation of such a word. For example in words like Maïs (Dutch/French), Oekraïne (Dutch/Afrikaans) or in the word naïve.

In the transcription of the languages of the Amazon, <ï> is used to represent the high central vowel [ɨ].