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  2. Gaijin - Wikipedia

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    Gaijin (外人, [ɡai(d)ʑiɴ]; 'outsider, alien') is a Japanese word for foreigners and non-Japanese citizens in Japan, specifically being applied to foreigners of non-Japanese ethnicity and those from the Japanese diaspora who are not Japanese citizens. [1] The word is composed of two kanji: gai (外, 'outside') and jin (人, 'person').

  3. Help:IPA/Japanese - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Alien language in science fiction - Wikipedia

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    A formal description of an alien language in science fiction may have been pioneered by Percy Greg's Martian language (he called it "Martial") in his 1880 novel Across the Zodiac, [1] although already the 17th century book The Man in the Moone describes the language of the Lunars, consisting "not so much of words and letters as tunes and strange sounds", which is in turn predated by other ...

  5. Klingon language - Wikipedia

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    Klingon is often written in (in-universe, "transliterated to") the Latin alphabet as used above, but on the television series, the Klingons use their own alien writing system. In The Klingon Dictionary , this alphabet is named as pIqaD , but no information is given about it.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Ateji - Wikipedia

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    Ateji form of "trash bin" (ゴミ入れ, gomi-ire) as "護美入れ", using the ateji form of "ゴミ" ("gomi", "trash"), which literally translates as "protect beauty". In modern Japanese, ateji (当て字, 宛字 or あてじ, pronounced; "assigned characters") principally refers to kanji used to phonetically represent native or borrowed words with less regard to the underlying meaning of ...

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  9. N (kana) - Wikipedia

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    One of the various meanings of the verb haneru (撥ねる) is to "make an upward brush-stroke" when writing, [10] which is a gesture that is involved in writing the kana ん and ン. Another meaning is rather specific, to 'pronounce "n" as a syllabic consonant', [ 10 ] in other words, to make the sounds represented by the kana ん and ン.