• following describes the standard variety of Japanese based on the Tokyo dialect. Discussions of Japanese phonology often refer to different 'strata' or layers...
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  • Gairaigo (外来語, Japanese pronunciation: [ɡaiɾaiɡo]) is Japanese for "loan word", and indicates a transcription into Japanese. In particular, the word usually...
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  • romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language. This method of writing is sometimes referred to in Japanese as rōmaji (ローマ字...
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    extensive waves of Sino-Japanese vocabulary entered the language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese. Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw extensive...
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    Japanese pitch accent (高低アクセント, kōtei akusento) is a feature of the Japanese language that distinguishes words by accenting particular morae in most Japanese...
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    The yen (Japanese: 円, symbol: ¥; code: JPY) is the official currency of Japan. It is the third-most traded currency in the foreign exchange market, after...
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    including on Japanese banknotes and postage stamps. Nihon is typically used in everyday speech and reflects shifts in Japanese phonology during the Edo...
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    standard widely used inside and outside Japan. The Kunrei-shiki system has a better correspondence with Japanese phonology, which makes it easier for native...
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  • vowels and long consonants. (See Early Middle Japanese: Phonological developments for details.) Sino-Japanese words are almost exclusively nouns, of which...
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    The earliest attested form of the language, Old Japanese, dates to the 8th century. Japanese phonology is characterized by a relatively small number of...
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    training Japanese subjects to improve their perception of /r/ and /l/. Lively et al. (1994) found that monolingual Japanese speakers in Japan could increase...
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  • Dakuten and handakuten (category Japanese phonology)
    you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The dakuten (Japanese: 濁点, Japanese pronunciation: [dakɯ̥teꜜɴ] or [dakɯ̥teɴ], lit. "voicing mark"),...
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    Voiced bilabial fricative (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    d'Andrade, Ernesto (2000), The Phonology of Portuguese, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-823581-X Okada, Hideo (1999), "Japanese", in International Phonetic...
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  • Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages systematically organize their phones or, for sign languages, their constituent parts...
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  • Mid front unrounded vowel (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    rounded. Bishop, N. (1996). A preliminary description of Kensiw (Maniq) phonology. Mon–Khmer Studies Journal, 25. Wissing (2016), section "The unrounded...
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  • Voiced dental and alveolar taps and flaps (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    261–265, doi:10.1017/S0025100303001385 Labrune, Laurence (2012), The Phonology of Japanese, Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-954583-4...
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    to Japanese-English Onomatopoeia and Mimesis. Tokyo: Hokuseidoo. Seiichi Makino and Michio Tsutsui, Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar, The Japan Times...
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  • Mid back rounded vowel (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    (PDF) on 2018-11-01, retrieved 2017-03-29 Árnason, Kristján (2011), The Phonology of Icelandic and Faroese, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-922931-4...
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    Close back unrounded vowel (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    001 – via Elsevier ScienceDirect. Labrune, Laurence (2012), The Phonology of Japanese, Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-954583-4...
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  • Kabedon (category Japanese phonology)
    "Kabe-Don" Japanese Girls Love So Much". Japanese kawaii idol music culture news | Tokyo Girls Update. November 2014. "Would kabe-don work outside of Japan?【Video】"...
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  • Rendaku (category Japanese phonology)
    Rendaku (連濁, Japanese pronunciation: [ɾendakɯ], lit. 'sequential voicing') is a phenomenon in Japanese morphophonology that governs the voicing of the...
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  • Hiragana (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    hiragana. Japanese phonology explains Japanese pronunciation in detail. Japanese typographic symbols gives other non-kana, non-kanji symbols. Japanese writing...
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  • Sokuon (category Japanese phonology)
    and writing basic Japanese. Passport Books. pp. 74−78. Japanese phonology gives a detailed description of the sound system of Japanese. Gemination Look...
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    often erroneously used to reference Japanese otaku culture, despite not being of Japanese origin and Japanese phonology lacking a "wu" phoneme entirely....
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  • addition to their native Japanese names. These Christian names are written using katakana, and are adapted to Japanese phonology from their Portuguese or...
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  • Wasei-eigo (redirect from Japanese English)
    meaning "Japanese-made English", from "wasei" (Japanese made) and "eigo" (English), in other words, "English words coined in Japan") are Japanese-language...
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    Voiced velar fricative (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    Meisenburg, Trudel, eds. (2021-11-22), Manual of Romance Phonetics and Phonology, De Gruyter, doi:10.1515/9783110550283, hdl:1983/44e3b3cd-164e-496b-a7a6-6b3a492e4c48...
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  • Kunrei-shiki romanization (category CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja))
    Jorden's Japanese: The Spoken Language, uses her JSL romanization, a system strongly influenced by Kunrei-shiki in its adherence to Japanese phonology, but...
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  • Close back rounded vowel (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    Boberg, Charles (2006). The Atlas of North American English. chpt. 17 "NZE Phonology" (PDF). Victoria University of Wellington. p. 3. Bauer & Warren (2004)...
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    Voiceless palatal fricative (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    Bunčić (2015), p. 223. Oftedal (1956), p. ?. Palatal phenomena in Spanish phonology Archived 2021-11-23 at the Wayback Machine Page 113 Göksel & Kerslake...
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