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I don't know how she is pronouncing her stage name but I suspect that she and the mass media in Spain are just pronouncing it eye-LEEN. Ailyn is a misspelling* of Ailín, a Mapuche name, and since Ailín (and Ailyn) came recently to Spain from, mainly, Argentina and Chile, the pronunciation is still the original one -the name is very young among the Spanish names (not before '80s)-.

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*In Spanish, excepted the copulative conjunction y (and), a letter Y only can be a consonant (Yolanda, yogur) or a semiconsonant (rey), not a vowel. The use of Y as vowel is considered a misspelling.

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