How do you pronounce Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?
This combination of undated photos shows brothers Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. The FBI says the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer, injured a transit officer in a firefight and threw explosive devices at police during a getaway attempt in a long night of violence on April 19, 2013. Credit: AP
By now, the names Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev are commonplace, but can you pronounce them?
We reached out to Brian Glyn Williams, professor of Islamic history at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, who has become a prime source of information on Chechen history and who served as a source of information for a paper Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote on the subject three years ago.
Williams, responding via email, offered some insight on the Chechen names, all rendered from the Cyrillic alphabet, he said:
Need more help? Slate published audio clips of someone familiar with the language speaking some of the names of relevant people and cities.
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