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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").
This is a simplified table of Japanese kanji visual components that does away with all the archaic forms found in the Japanese version of the Kangxi radicals.. The 214 Kanji radicals are technically classifiers as they are not always etymologically correct, [1] but since linguistics uses that word in the sense of "classifying" nouns (such as in counter words), dictionaries commonly call the ...
Japanese phonology has been affected by the presence of several layers of vocabulary in the language: in addition to native Japanese vocabulary, Japanese has a large amount of Chinese-based vocabulary (used especially to form technical and learned words, playing a similar role to Latin-based vocabulary in English) and loanwords from other ...
This article is about English words. It's not List of Japanese words used in English. It's List of English words of Japanese origin. All words included in this list should be without exception English words. To claim that it's not a reasonable criterion that knowledge of English be the only language prerequisite, is quite ludicrous to say the ...
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.
By contrast, in Old Japanese -shiki (〜しき) adjectives (precursors of present i-adjectives ending in -shi-i (〜しい), formerly a different word class) were open, as reflected in words like ita-ita-shi-i (痛々しい, pitiful), from the adjective ita-i (痛い, painful, hurt), and kō-gō-shi-i (神々しい, heavenly, sublime), from the ...
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The yōon (Japanese: 拗音 (ようおん)) is a feature of the Japanese language in which a mora is formed with an added sound, i.e., palatalized, [1] or (more rarely in the modern language) with an added sound, i.e. labialized.