Actor's pronounciation

[Alyara Arati]

Remember, the stats I was giving were for monolingual people, Wes, for one, had a massive jump over the others right away, because "Born in Norfire Hollow, Oklahoma, Studi exclusively spoke his native Cherokee language until beginning school at the age of five." (From his IMDb bio)  You can actually hear his Cherokee accent in the way he pronounces some things, although I'm in too much of a hurry atm to find examples I'm sure others can

As for the lovely Ms Pounder, she was born in Guyana, and although I can't (in my short amount of time free now) find anything on her language knowledge, Guyana has 14 recognised languages, even if its official language is English, so the liklihood of her having more than one is also high.

Oops.  Good point.  I had forgotten about that (really not a morning person), but I now remember something about the actors having to audition in something other than English, and thinking that all the ones who wound up playing Na'vi were (probably, because I don't know about CCH either, for sure) at least bilingual.  The guy who played Norm was surprised that he got the part because he had been yammering in gibberish, and felt like he'd made a complete fool of himself.  I guess that turned out to be OK for his character.  Not that I dislike Norm, but he is a bit of a goofball.

[Amaya]

Remember, the stats I was giving were for monolingual people, Wes, for one, had a massive jump over the others right away, because "Born in Norfire Hollow, Oklahoma, Studi exclusively spoke his native Cherokee language until beginning school at the age of five." (From his IMDb bio)  You can actually hear his Cherokee accent in the way he pronounces some things, although I'm in too much of a hurry atm to find examples I'm sure others can

As for the lovely Ms Pounder, she was born in Guyana, and although I can't (in my short amount of time free now) find anything on her language knowledge, Guyana has 14 recognised languages, even if its official language is English, so the liklihood of her having more than one is also high.

Oops.  Good point.  I had forgotten about that (really not a morning person), but I now remember something about the actors having to audition in something other than English, and thinking that all the ones who wound up playing Na'vi were (probably, because I don't know about CCH either, for sure) at least bilingual.  The guy who played Norm was surprised that he got the part because he had been yammering in gibberish, and felt like he'd made a complete fool of himself.  I guess that turned out to be OK for his character.  Not that I dislike Norm, but he is a bit of a goofball.

the goofball-ness is definitely part of Norm's charm, although of course most of it comes out in the deleted scenes...

Anyway, back on topic, CCH Pounder, from what other info I managed to dig up, she spent time in Britain and France during her school years, so I would presume she had at least a little French as well as English...but I couldn't find anything on which particular languages she speaks...  I suppose some crazy person could email her or something to ask, but that's a bit more...obsessive than I want to admit to being

[Neyn'ite Te Tsahìk Txeptsyìp'ite]

..... my understanding of linguistic terms is pretty shoddy (and I really have a bit of a "mental block" in learning them, which has slowed my aquisition of na'vi - .....

You are SO not alone in this !

ME TOO! it will, unfortunately, take me a while to get down the language and pronunciation.

as for who I voted for? Mo'at. I loved the way she spoke in the film. my two second choices would be Eytukan and Tsu'tey.

['Oma Tirea]

Ironically, the actors who played Na'vi roles seemed to butcher their Na'vi the worst, and vice versa.

Then again, it could be better overall (I voted Norm a while ago, and I'm still sticking to it )

[Neyn'ite Te Tsahìk Txeptsyìp'ite]

ma Sxkxawng, Norm had decent pronunciation; I believe Mo'at, Eytukan and Tsu'tey had better pronunciation than he did. jmo