Pronunciation your strong point?

[cee-dee]

Why is pronunciation so strange?

For instance take the countries Albania, Lithuania, Mauritania and Romania. They all end with "ania" and that last bit is pronounced "ay-nee-ah". However, when we get to Tanzania, the prononunciation of that is "Tan-zah-nee-ah". Why? Just wondering that's all.......... 

No wonder people learning to speak English have a job mastering the perculiarities of the language?

[roger_roger_over_and_nowt]

It's pronounced Tanz_ania depending on where you come from.

[cee-dee]

That's not illustrating the sound of every syllable.

[auctionmike1]

Tanzania as a state has only existed since the early 1960s and was a union between the former British colony of Tanganyika and the island sultanate of Zanzibar, so I guess they kept the Zan sound from Zanzibar to remind everybody of where  the new name came from.