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Mama and papa use speech sounds that are among the easiest to produce: bilabial consonants like /m/, /p/, and /b/, and the open vowel /a/.They are, therefore, often among the first word-like sounds made by babbling babies (babble words), and parents tend to associate the first sound babies make with themselves and to employ them subsequently as part of their baby-talk lexicon.
Mami Koyama (小山 茉美; born 1955), Japanese voice actress; Mami Kudo (工藤真実; born 1964), Japanese ultramarathon runner; Mami Matsuyama (松山 まみ; born 1988), Japanese idol and cosplayer; Mami Mizutori (水鳥真美; (born 1960), Japanese diplomat; Mami Naito (内藤 真実; born 1986), Japanese badminton player; Mami Nakamura ...
A mama-san or mamasan is usually a woman in a position of authority, especially one in charge of a geisha house or bar or nightclub in East Asia. [1]In Southeast Asia a mamasan is a woman who works in a supervisory role in certain establishments, typically those related to drinking places.
The Edo Kokugaku scholar Tanikawa Kotosuga (ja:谷川士清, 1709–1776) began compilation of the first full-scale Japanese language dictionary, the Wakun no Shiori or Wakunkan (和訓栞 "Guidebook to Japanese Pronunciations"). This influential 9-volume dictionary of classical Japanese words was posthumously completed and finally published in ...
If the word has an accent on the last mora, the pitch rises from a low start up to a high pitch on the last mora. Words with this accent are indistinguishable from accentless words unless followed by a particle such as が ga or に ni, on which the pitch drops. In Japanese this accent is called 尾高型 odakagata ("tail-high").
“In a ballroom context, a mother can be a ‘drag mother’ who teaches a new queen the art and perhaps the business of drag or vogue or emceeing — a present figure who enables their self ...
The Dai Kan-Wa Jiten (大漢和辞典, "The Great Chinese–Japanese Dictionary") is a Japanese dictionary of kanji (Chinese characters) compiled by Tetsuji Morohashi. Remarkable for its comprehensiveness and size, Morohashi's dictionary contains over 50,000 character entries and 530,000 compound words.
English, French, and Japanese dictionary of classical Japanese literature: Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language: 1632 : grammatical description of Japanese in framework of Latin grammar: EDICT: 1991–present: Jim Breen's machine-readable multilingual Japanese dictionary, KANJIDIC for kanji, more than 180,000 entries [1] Eijirō