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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.
Steve Wilhite's slide at the 2013 Webby Awards. The pronunciation of GIF, an acronym for the Graphics Interchange Format, has been disputed since the 1990s.Popularly rendered in English as a one-syllable word, the acronym is most commonly pronounced / ɡ ɪ f / ⓘ (with a hard g as in gig) or / dʒ ɪ f / ⓘ (with a soft g as in gin), differing in the phoneme represented by the letter G.
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") [165 ...
[1] [2] Such words are found in written as well as spoken Japanese. [3] Known popularly as onomatopoeia, these words do not just imitate sounds but also cover a much wider range of meanings; [1] indeed, many sound-symbolic words in Japanese are for things that make no noise originally, most clearly demonstrated by 'silently' (しーんと ...
In Japanese, each digit/number has at least one native Japanese (), Sino-Japanese (), and English-origin reading.Furthermore, variants of readings may be produced through abbreviation (i.e. rendering ichi as i), consonant voicing (i.e sa as za; see Dakuten and handakuten), gemination (i.e. roku as rokku; see sokuon), vowel lengthening (i.e. ni as nii; see chōonpu), or the insertion of the ...
Umehara ga kimeta or Crazy Live Commentary (Japanese: 電波実況, romanized: Denpa Jikkyou) was live commentary in response to a match by video-game player Daigo Umehara at a national fighting game tournament in Japan in 2003. In 2007, a 17-second video clip of "Crazy Live Commentary" was posted on a video-sharing website.
Japanese accent may refer to: Japanese dialects , regional variants of Japanese pronunciation Japanese pitch accent , or high and low pronunciations to distinguish moras
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]