Learn something new every day. The correct pronunciation for Himalaya is “hi-MAAL-yah.”
I look forward to going there later this year to conduct research as an artist, made possible by a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar award. Excited and honored! Truly grateful for this opportunity! I will be researching murals of Indo-Tibetan monasteries in Lahaul, Spiti, and Ladakh districts, with a focus on mandalas as a blueprint for understanding the nature of mind and reality.
So while my departure is still months away, I’ve already begun traveling in my mind as I await further details from Fulbright.
Not quite, the correct, or rather the native pronunciation is ‘hi-maa-la-ya’, there are four distinct syllables not three.
Thanks, sbstr, for your clarification!