Talk:Javier (name)

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Contents 1 I think this is irrelevant in Javier, 2 Navarrese Romance 3 Javier is a name for... 4 Musician

[edit] I think this is irrelevant in Javier,

Portuguese kept the pronunciation of "x" as the English "sh". Therefore, in Portuguese the name is still spelled Xavier and maintains the original "sh" pronunciation.

People unfamiliar with the form Xavier, when faced with reading it, have sometimes resorted to pronouncing it "ex-avier", though one would have expected its pronunciation as one would pronounce the word "xylophone" to have offered a more reasonable solution. This has resulted in some popular fictional Xaviers getting saddled with the "Ex-avier" pronunciation, as with Charles Xavier, leader of the fictional X-Men.

Compare with the evolution of the placename Ilunberri to Lumbier.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.23.179.73 (talk) 15:12, 9 May 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Navarrese Romance

Is the evolution a Castilian one or a Navarrese Romance one. It seems French-influenced. --Error 23:20, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Javier is a name for...

   Enlightened Latin men, bright, and usually good leaders.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Spicy puerto rican (talk • contribs) 23:45, 13 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Musician

There is a fantastic R&B artist named Javier, who even has an album titled "Javier". I am amazed that with the wealth of knowledge Wikipedia has, Javier is nowhere at all to be found. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.132.18.146 (talk) 23:52, 12 November 2007 (UTC)