How do you correctly pronounce Xuân Lộc? It’s a village in Vietnam that was a battle site.
I do not speak Vietnamese, but I hear it spoken frequently. I believe it would be something like “Swin Lowc”.
Would the ow be like the ow in snow or the ow in how?
Like in snow. Except it ends with a glottal stop (instead of the -w offglide it has in English).
Man, is it hard to do a glottal followed by a /k/!
So like loco but without the final o?
Pretty much, yes. The tone mark on the o means it’s a low falling tone that becomes creaky-voiced and ends with a glottal stop.