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Its name is a play on the Kansai phrase "iko ka!" ("Let's go!"). /u/ is nearer to than to . In Standard, vowel reduction frequently occurs, but it is rare in Kansai. For example, the polite copula desu (です) is pronounced nearly as [des] in standard Japanese, but Kansai speakers tend to pronounce it distinctly as /desu/ or even /desuː/.
Kyo (Japanese: 京, Hepburn: Kyō, born February 16, [1] 1976 in Kyoto) is a Japanese musician, singer, lyricist and poet. He is best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the heavy metal band Dir En Grey.
The phonemes /b, d, ɡ/ have weakened non-plosive pronunciations that can be broadly transcribed as voiced fricatives [β, ð, ɣ], although they may be realized instead as voiced approximants [β̞, ð̞~ɹ, ɣ̞~ɰ]. [42] [43] There is no context where the non-plosive pronunciations are consistently used, but they occur most often between vowels:
Japanese Pronunciation and Writing Systems. Japanese uses four different writing systems: Romaji , Hiragana , Katakana , and Kanji . Romanji means Roman letters and is the writing system that will be used here.
Ogenki Clinic (お元気クリニック, Ogenki Kurinikku) is a 1987 Seinen manga series by Haruka Inui which was originally published in Play Comic. The manga was adapted into an anime OVA series. There was also a live-action version, Welcome to Ogenki Clinic. The plotline revolves around the quirky (and perpetually horny) Doctor Sawaru Ogenki ...
The nature and location of the accent for a given word may vary between dialects. For instance, the word for "river" is [ka.waꜜ] in the Tokyo dialect, with the accent on the second mora, but in the Kansai dialect it is [kaꜜ.wa]. A final [i] or [ɯ] is often devoiced to [i̥] or [ɯ̥] after a downstep and an unvoiced consonant.
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.
Aizuchi can also take the form of so-called echo questions, which consist of a noun plus desu ka (ですか). After Speaker A asks a question, Speaker B may repeat a key noun followed by desu ka to confirm what Speaker A was talking about or simply to keep communication open while Speaker B thinks of an answer.