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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Japanese on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Japanese in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The actual pronunciation of a foreign "v sound" is normally not distinguished from a Japanese /b/: for example, there is no meaningful phonological or phonetic difference in pronunciation between Eruvisu (エルヴィス) and Erubisu (エルビス, Elvis"), or between vaiorin (ヴァイオリン) and baiorin (バイオリン, "violin") [159 ...
To an English speaker's ears, its pronunciation lies somewhere between a flapped t (as in American and Australian English better and ladder), an l and a d. [kirei] "beautiful" The consonant n at final or n before r is uvular: This consonant is a sound made further back, as of making a nasal sound at the place to articulate the French ʁ.
The [jɛ] (ye) sound is believed to have existed in pre-Classical Japanese, mostly before the advent of kana, and can be represented by the man'yōgana kanji 江. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] There was an archaic Hiragana ( ) [ 9 ] derived from the man'yōgana ye kanji 江, [ 7 ] which is encoded into Unicode at code point U+1B001 (𛀁), [ 10 ] [ 11 ] but it ...
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Rendaku (連濁, Japanese pronunciation:, lit. ' sequential voicing ') is a phenomenon affecting the pronunciation of compound words in Japanese.When rendaku occurs, a voiceless consonant (such as /t k s h/) is replaced with a voiced consonant (such as /d ɡ z b/) at the start of the second (or later) part of the compound.
Tsu (hiragana: つ, katakana: ツ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both are phonemically /tɯ/ , reflected in the Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki Romanization tu , although for phonological reasons , the actual pronunciation is [t͡sɯᵝ] ⓘ , reflected in the Hepburn romanization tsu .
It is an intuitive method of showing Anglophones the pronunciation of a word in Japanese. It was standardized in the United States as American National Standard System for the Romanization of Japanese (Modified Hepburn), but that status was abolished on October 6, 1994. Hepburn is the most common romanization system in use today, especially in ...