Someone please sound out "Sanaa" for me

[BirdsOfPreyDave]

I asked the dining reservation CM to repeat herself several times. I still didn't get it.

Sounded like she was saying something like sign-eee. Can that be right?

I've been saying it like Santa without the 't'. (Rhymes with the last 2 syllables of Savannah -- as in Georgia.)

 

[lmb]

We ate there when it first opened and the cast members pronounced it with the emphasis on the second half of the word, e.g. sa NAH

 

[dianeschlicht]

Sa-NAH is what I have heard also, but it COULD be Sa NAH AH too. I'm just not sure if Swahili does the double "a" like the polynesians do or not.

 

[Sammie]

According to the Disney Files magazine: sah-NAH

It is Swahili for artwork.

 

[drusba]

It is sa-nah and in swahili the emhasis can go on either syllable

 

[SamSam]

Saw-Nah

 

[Brave teacher]

suh nah is how they pronounced it there last week.

 

[Pig Pen]

Well that cleared things up...

 

[BirdsOfPreyDave]

Well that cleared things up...

LOL, that's what I was thinking.

That, and an old Monty Python sketch...

"It's spelled Raymond Luxury Yacht, but it's pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove."

 

[Micca]

If you get a massage and a steam bath you didn't say it right.

 

[thesupersmartguy]

Yes Sah-NAH.

 

[tecodis]

suh nah is how they pronounced it there last week.

When I was there a CM, looked like a mgr, at the Sanaa podium said "Welcome to " SUH NAY.
(rhyming with "duh" then "day")

 

[kaffinito]

If you get a massage and a steam bath you didn't say it right.

 

[JenSop]

I've also understood it to be "sah-NAH"

Now, I have no training in african languages, but I have extensive training in european language diction (two degrees in classical voice will do that.) The letter "A" in almost every language is pronounced "ah." So that's why I took it to have "ah" vowel pronunciation. But then they also confirmed that in the Disney Files magazine. FWIW!