Expert: Gary Goldberg Date: 6/2/2008 Subject: New Physician from ST. Petersburg
Question How to pronounce "Inna Malostovker"? Thanks!
Answer Well, it's hard to approximate Russian sounds without a generally-accepted phonetic representation.
That said, Inna will sound like "EEn-nuh".
The surname isn't Russian (perhaps Jewish?), but should
sound something like "Muh-luh-STAWV-kur", assuming that
I'm right that it's stressed on the 3rd syllable.
Russian exhibits a feature called "vowel reduction" where vowels in unstressed syllables
trend toward an "uh" sound.
