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  2. 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]

  3. Japanese pitch accent - Wikipedia

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    Normative pitch accent, essentially the pitch accent of the Tokyo Yamanote dialect, is considered essential in jobs such as broadcasting.The current standards for pitch accent are presented in special accent dictionaries for native speakers such as the Shin Meikai Nihongo Akusento Jiten (新明解日本語アクセント辞典) and the NHK Nihongo Hatsuon Akusento Jiten (NHK日本語発音 ...

  4. 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.

  5. Onbin - Wikipedia

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    Onbin sound changes likely had their roots in earlier phonetic variation in the pronunciation of Old Japanese consonants and vowels. [8] Namely, the Old Japanese consonants /p k/ might have varied phonetically between voiceless stops [p k], voiced stops [b g], voiceless fricatives [ɸ x], and voiced continuants [β ɣ]. [35]

  6. 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 ...

  7. Man'yōgana - Wikipedia

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    Man'yōgana (万葉仮名, Japanese pronunciation: [maɰ̃joꜜːɡana] or [maɰ̃joːɡana]) is an ancient writing system that uses Chinese characters to represent the Japanese language. It was the first known kana system to be developed as a means to represent the Japanese language phonetically. The date of the earliest usage of this type of ...

  8. Yamatai - Wikipedia

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    The c. 297 CE Records of Wèi (traditional Chinese: 魏志), which is part of the Records of the Three Kingdoms (三國志), first mentions the country Yamatai, usually spelled as 邪馬臺 (/*ja-ma B-də̂/), written instead with the spelling 邪馬壹 (/*ja-ma B-ʔit/), or Yamaichi in modern Japanese pronunciation. [3]

  9. Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Place names with unusual readings ...

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    Japan has many place names with unusual readings (難読地名, nandoku chimei) where the kanji are not read in the standard way. In many cases, even the Japanese need assistance in knowing the correct pronunciation unless they grew up in the area, especially when the kanji being used are not part of the 2,136 approved kanji on the Jōyō kanji list.