Quinoa's popularity in the United States, and worldwide, has really taken off, but pronouncing it is a mystery to many. Are there three syllables, or two? Which syllable gets the most emphasis? Let's take a look at the pronunciation of this word.
There are two syllables in
. We could separate them like this:quin-oa
The IPA for this word is:
ˈkinwa
Let's take a closer look at each syllable.
kin
The first syllable, /kin/, has three sounds. The first sound is