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Birmingham would be pronounced roughly 'BEERmeeng-han' by a native Spanish speaker reading the word.

To enable such a native-speaker to read/pronounce the name with English (but not Brummie!) pronunciation is difficult because the neutral sound of the English indefinite article 'a', or 'er/ir/ur' does not exist in Spanish, so only an approximation is possible, either (in sound) 'Boormingham' or 'Bormingham'.

The former would need to be written: 'Burmingjam'

The latter 'Bormingjam'.

In both cases, the 'ing' would still emerge as 'eeng', the 'h/j' as 'kh', and the 'a' would still be as in 'fat', rather than 'a'.

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