^The way it's spelled. For me, anyway, I don't know if you life in the U.S. but it's pretty much "Mint" without the "t" and "ka" as in "kuh".
I don't know. I'm not very good with phonetics.
And Minka was on Parenthood again last night. You can click here for the video.
She appears at 12.18 and 29.30.