1. Aren't most people who pronounce it Ka-MAL-a rather than KA-ma-la (just from reading how it's spelled) simply assuming the same pronunciation as O-BAM-a? Nobody says OB-a-ma. I had the pronunciation wrong by default when I was first reading her name, until I heard it spoken.
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3. Of course, there are a *lot* of different African languages & dialects, so Americans typically know them only impressionistically - and that includes Americans who give their kids African names.
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4. Meanwhile, despite having stood on a debate stage with her many times, Joe Biden seems to think it's a derivation of Pamelahttps://twitter.com/nickadamsinusa/status/1293660352962592768?s=21 …
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5. As a number of people are noting, Kamala is an Indian - or rather, Tamil - name, not an African one. Which was new to me this week; I had not looked into it before. Tamil names are more outside my own experience. There's always more to learn about people & peoples.
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According to the WSJ, it is Indian, pronounced comma-la.
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It’s an Indian name- means lotus ! So is her middle name which means goddess !
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I like to pronounce peoples' names correctly and have been complemented several times for correctly mimicking what I was told... But when you have http://names.like Kayla said two different ways it's challenging...
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It is an Indian name. https://www.behindthename.com/name/kamala . Famous person with same name https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Nehru …
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