Sadegh asked Julie Berry:

With all of these non-English words (e.g. proper nouns) in "The Passion of Dolssa", wouldn't that be helpful to the many readers who don't have the audio version if you had arranged "a reference list of pronunciation" that would include phonetics and playable sound files?

Julie Berry That would be cool. The truth is, I didn't know the correct pronunciations until after the audiobook was made. The audiobook producers found an Old Provencal expert who could instruct them on the pronunciations. It was very welcome news to me. It's well-nigh impossible to know for sure how a nearly-lost European Romance language was pronounced almost 800 years ago. Same for spellings.

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