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Help[Facts] Re: Aksana in Central Asia & the Caucasus
in reply to a message by Anya Mel’nik or Mel’nyk
Listening to the Russian pronunciation of Oksana on Forvo (https://forvo.com/word/%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0/#ru), it simply sounds like Aksana to me (I'm Polish). Perhaps people from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan etc. also hear Aksana rather than Oksana.
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Russians do pronounce it like Aksana, because the Russian o often sounds more like a than o.
In Ukrainian it's pronounced with an o sound, as you can see since it's also on the forvo page.
It would make sense that they'd follow the Russian pronunciation over the Ukrainian pronounciation, because they border Russia and not Ukraine.
So it's probably a variant of Oksana from the Russian pronounciation used in Central Asia because of the way it sounds.
In Ukrainian it's pronounced with an o sound, as you can see since it's also on the forvo page.
It would make sense that they'd follow the Russian pronunciation over the Ukrainian pronounciation, because they border Russia and not Ukraine.
So it's probably a variant of Oksana from the Russian pronounciation used in Central Asia because of the way it sounds.
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