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[Opinions] Re: What are some Girls V names?
Sorry I don't like dashes in names. Not my cup of tea I'm afraid! I do like the way it looks maybe Vykv'yna. I just don't like the dash. Sorry!Tammy Lynn Married to Joshua WalterKaleb Joshua WyattLilith Morgana JuneJoah Paul BenjaminSariah Jade Alice 01-16-15Freya Aliona Jocelyn 02-21-17Bellamy Christopher Jordan 12-15-2021Newest Family member is Anakin Jericho NN AJ our cat fur baby.

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I mean, that's fair, it's usually the same with me. But Vykv-yna isn't like an English name where you can just choose to not have a dash or a Korean name where you can choose to not transcript it with a dash
It's a name that's (most likely) a combination of two Chukchi words, similar to the Tuvan name Dalay-kys. An apostrophe in Cyrillic transcriptions denotes to pallatisation (i. e. y sound, like la pallatised is lya) or an apostrophe in the spelling (only Ukrainian + Belarusian), like Мар'яна can be written as Mar'yana. Most of the time, English speakers choose to simply the spellings and not include those marks.