My name is Elina. The Finnish way to pronounce it is somehow hard to understand I guess (because no one foreign I know has done it yet), but anyway here it comes: All the vowels are short, the pressure is strongly on E in the beginning. The I is like I in the English word ill. Can you manage it? :) It's a really common name in Finland.
― Anonymous User 8/29/2007
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Elina is used in Sweden too and here it is pronounced as Eh-LEE-nah.