the ng in bantu languages is a nasal where to my ears it sounds like nyeh-nee, but the e is probably a long vowel, which would make it nyay-nee. with Ndereba, the n should be heard as a kind of grace note. en-dereba, but the en sound is very short. You'd probably have more luck being understood if you just said dereba. I worked on the n as grace note for two years and was still misunderstood while another guy just said the words without the n and was immediately understood.
I've heard it as Niah "NEN GAY"
Unfortunately, Noah Ngeny is Kalenjin, so the Bantu rules don't apply here. Kalenjin is a tonal Nilotic language, and it's nearly impossible to spell some of their words using our alphabet.
Someone posted this earlier:
"It is NI-en."
And that's pretty close to how I've heard it from the folks there.
The pronunciation of Nguyễn can be approximated by English speakers as "win" or "when". Writers familiar with this approximation have created puns from the pronunciation.
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