Comma-la (as she tells us to pronounce it), or even Com'la (as it is traditionally pronounced)
Thank you for this. I’ve heard her name mispronounced so often that I genuinely thought kah-MALL-uh was correct. Whoops! Comma-la it is!
Happy to help!
Oh, I shoulda linked to a first-hand source where she herself wrote "comma-la" as the pronunciation (no particular accent on syllables). It is in her book, and also towards the bottom of this piece has that excerpts from her book: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/book-excerpt-kamala-harris-truths-hold/story?id=60234101
Commala? As in the pokemon Komala?
So it really is Komala Harris vs Trumpshoos
"Comma-la" unfortunately doesn't help much for people without US accents lol (though of course people in the US are who the question and answer are most relevant to). On first reading -- without the accent or something close to it -- it implies "kom-uh-luh", whereas with the accent it implies something more like "kah-muh-luh", just based on how people pronounce "comma" differently.
Obama, Obamala, 'bamala, Kamala
Whoa Black Betty, 'bamala
That's one of the cleverest pronunciation guides I've ever seen.
Thanks Obamala.
Oh shit here come the conspiracy theories now....
Guise. Guise. They're both black.... Dons tinfoil hat
Tomorrow on Alex Jones' podcast: Kamala Harris is actually Barrack Obama in drag. It's all part of his nefarious plan to subverting term limits and force Healthcare on everyone.
Comma-la
However she pronounces it.
Right right right
and that would be ... ?
Oh, I found the video on her Youtube channel literally addressing this question back in 2016:
Comma-luh
KAH-muh-luh HAER-is
Kamala (/ˈkɑːmələ/) Harris (/ˈhærɪs/)
Fun fact.
In Finnish "kamala" means "awful".
We are gonna have endless dad jokes with this one.
"Kamala"
The Indian (Sanskrit) name is pronounced ka-ma-laa (meaning lotus), with no stress, and no gap in between the syllables. The first two 'a's are pronounced like the 'u' in rum, while the last is the same sound but longer (so like the 'a' in calm).
The US Presidential candidate's name is pronounced the way she likes, which in this case is closer to ko-ma-laa.
Karma-la... But drop the 'r'
,-la
Anyone have the IPA pronunciation?
Anyone else craving olives after reading this thread?
Watch miss marvel and listen how her mother calls her.
I say it as [ˈka.ma.la].
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