What is the proper pronounciation for the surname Ulloa?

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What is the proper pronounciation for the surname Ulloa?

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Last updated Jun 22 2022.

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Professor Derby Ulloa (pronounced ew-yo-a) mir-rors his college campus office - small but packed with creative expression.
[web.fccj.edu/~dulloa/Images/NeighborhoodsSeptember.pdf, no longer online]

Listed here as 'oh: yo; AH'

http://www.pronouncenames.com/pronounce/ulloa

Here's a Youtube video that has somebody pronouncing it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT0MINQwe8U

Response last updated by nautilator on Dec 27 2016.
Jun 30 2009, 5:54 PM

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Answer 1

"Actually, default pronunciation in Castillian Spanish is to stress the the second to the last syllable. Only when the emphasis is on another syllable is an accent mark used. As the usual pronunciation of our name Ulloa is u-YO-a, no accent is needed over the o."

http://genforum.genealogy.com/ulloa/messages/158.html

Answer 2

The "U is generally pronounced like the "oo" in "boot" or the "u" in "tune." Do not pronounced it like the "u" in "uniform.""

http://spanish.about.com/library/beginning/bl-beg-pronunciation-vowels.htm

p.s. My parents lived on Ulloa St. in San Francisco, and they pronounced it you-low-a (an adulteration, no doubt).

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wellenbrecher

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The pronounciation heavily depends on the origin of the speaker. Note the difference between Colombian Spanish and Argentinian Spanish, for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq5PUsn8wXI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT0MINQwe8U

Jun 22 2022, 7:11 PM

What is the proper pronounciation for the surname Ulloa?

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