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  2. Help:IPA/Japanese - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Japanese

    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.

  3. Japanese pitch accent - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese this accent is called 尾高型 odakagata ("tail-high"). If the word does not have an accent, the pitch rises from a low starting point on the first mora or two, and then levels out in the middle of the speaker's range, without ever reaching the high tone of an accented mora. In Japanese this accent is named "flat" (平板式 ...

  4. Mo (kana) - Wikipedia

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    mo: hiragana origin: 毛: katakana origin: 毛: Man'yōgana: 毛 畝 蒙 木 問 聞 方 面 忘 母 文 茂 記 勿 物 望 門 喪 裳 藻: spelling kana: もみじのモ Momiji no "mo" unicode: U+3082, U+30E2: braille: Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation

  5. List of shibboleths - Wikipedia

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    Belfast locals pronounce it / ˈ b iː v ər / BEE-vər, as in "beaver", instead of the French-influenced pronunciation such as / b ɛ l ˈ v w ɑːr / bel-VWAR. Boucher Road, Belfast : Despite its derivation from the French word for 'butcher', Belfast locals pronounce it / ˈ b aʊ tʃ ər / BOW -chər , as in "voucher", instead of a French ...

  6. Japanese phonology - Wikipedia

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    Many generalizations about Japanese pronunciation have exceptions if recent loanwords are taken into account. For example, the consonant [p] generally does not occur at the start of native (Yamato) or Chinese-derived (Sino-Japanese) words, but it occurs freely in this position in mimetic and foreign words. [2]

  7. Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai - Wikipedia

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    It implies a particular pronunciation, indirectly on the vowel. It neglects to distinguish between words where the distinction is not clear, such as the /to/ in /toru/ as well as in /kaditori/. It implies the unmarked Type A form is the pronunciation of syllables which do not distinguish Type A vs Type B, such as si or po.

  8. Julien Miquel - Wikipedia

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    Julien Miquel AIWS is a French YouTuber and winemaker, best known for making word pronunciation videos on his eponymous channel, with over 50,000 uploads as of May 2024. Several native speakers have criticised him for butchering the pronunciation of their languages. [1]

  9. Japanese exonyms - Wikipedia

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    Japanese exonyms are the names of places in the Japanese language that differ from the name given in the place's dominant language.. While Japanese names of places that are not derived from the Chinese language generally tend to represent the endonym or the English exonym as phonetically accurately as possible, the Japanese terms for some place names are obscured, either because the name was ...