Cote D'livore

I would like to know if anyone knows how to pronounce "Cote D'livoire" it is a city in Africa

well how do you pronounce is, like how would you say it?

Hi Sessered,
The spelling actually is COTE D' IVOIRE, and it's not a city, but a country(unless there is a city there with bears the same name )
For the pronunciation, well, I'm not good at phonetic but it go like this:

COTE = COAT as in coat
D'IVOIRE = DEE as in Bruce Lee, but with a D or simply the fourth letter of the English alphabet, D. ,  VOU as in Voodoo,    AAR as in the 18th letter on the English alphabet, R.

So it goes like this: COAT D VOU R, or COAT DEE VOUAAR

Anonymous wrote:

I saw that someone said that Côte d'Ivoire is the french name for the Ivory Coast but actually, the governement of Côte d'Ivoire says that in all lauguages it should be called Côte d'Ivoire rather than the Ivory Coast. Even though Côte d'Ivoire translates to Ivory Coast, the government of Côte d'Ivoire requests it is called Côte d'Ivoire. just an fyi

I wonder if anyone complies with this request, which was made quite a few years ago.  In Spanish, the name Côte d'Ivoire is also (and still) literally translated as 'Costa de Marfil'.

By the way, and unless you want to say it with an English accent (which is cute, of course), Côte d'Ivoire is pronounced [co:t] (as in 'caught') [di'vwa:R], bearing in mind that the French 'r' is guttural and consonants in that language are much gentler than their English counterparts.

Marvin A. wrote:

>> [co:t] (as in 'caught') << Hmmm.  Do you actually mean a tense vowel?  Not many people pronounce "caught" with /o/.  In fact, in Western North America, it's actually pronounced /kAt/.  In RP, I believe it's something like /O:/.

I knew I should have specified!  The sound I meant is [o:] as in RP or Standard British English. 

Now, said with a Southern French accent, it becomes [cot] (as in 'cot' -- again, in British English) with a small schwa a the end of both words.