View Message

New Post
Search
Help

This is a reply within a larger thread: view the whole thread

[Surname] Re: Arabic and Indian Surnames
by JP (guest)
10/21/2007, 11:42 PM
in reply to a message by Megan
I am Indian and my surname is Patankar. I also know that Mehta, Ramchandran and Bhardwaj are Indian surnames. These four names are definitely SURNAMES. I know Indian people that have them. Hope this helps.
Reply
vote up1vote down

Replies

- Megan (Megan7)   +2
10/22/2007, 11:55 AM
Thank you, that helps a lot. Though, could you give me the pronunciations of them? I have no idea where to start on how to say them.
Reply
vote up1vote down
- JP (guest)   +1
10/22/2007, 2:27 PM
Mehta is pronounced like Mey-tuh. Ramchandran sounds like Rom-chon-drin. Patankar sounds like Puh-tonk-car.Bhardwaj sounds like Bard-wozh. And Patel is also another Indian surname that is very common. Here is a good pronunciation key I found from Dictionary.com to help with some of the sounds. http://dictionary.reference.com/help/luna/Spell_pron_key.html.
Does this help?
Reply
vote up1vote down
- Megan (Megan7)
10/22/2007, 2:50 PM
Yup, that helps. Thank you.
Reply
vote up1vote down