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  2. Help:IPA/Japanese - Wikipedia

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    Help:IPA/Japanese. 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. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the talk ...

  3. Perception of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese speakers

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    bread/bled. froze/flows. The Japanese adaptation of English words is largely non-rhotic, in that English /r/ at the end of a syllable is realized either as a vowel or as nothing and therefore is distinguished from /l/ in the same environment. So store and stole or stall, for example, are distinguished as sutoa and sutōru, respectively.

  4. Chi (kana) - Wikipedia

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    Chi (kana) ち, in hiragana, or チ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both are phonemically /ti/, reflected in the Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization ti, although, for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is [t͡ɕi] ⓘ, which is reflected in the Hepburn romanization chi.

  5. World Freshwater Aquarium Aquatotto Gifu - Wikipedia

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    March 31, 2011 : The number of visitors to the aquarium in FY2010 was 418,620. September 2, 2011: The aquarium was awarded the "Breeding Prize" by the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums for its achievements in the breeding of the Japanese freshwater crab. 2012 March 31: The number of visitors to the aquarium in FY2011 was 419,447.

  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. List of languages by number of phonemes - Wikipedia

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    Estimates of phoneme-inventory size can differ radically between sources, occasionally by a factor of several hundred percent. For instance, Received Pronunciation of English has been claimed to have anywhere between 11 and 27 vowels, whereas West ǃXoon has been analyzed as having anywhere from 87 to 164 consonants.

  8. Romanization of Japanese - Wikipedia

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    Rōmaji. Cyrillization. v. t. e. The romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language. [1] This method of writing is sometimes referred to in Japanese as rōmaji (ローマ字, lit. 'Roman letters', [ɾoːma (d)ʑi] ⓘ or [ɾoːmaꜜ (d)ʑi]). Japanese is normally written in a combination of logographic ...

  9. Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium - Wikipedia

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    The Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium (Japanese: 名古屋港水族館, Hepburn: Nagoyakō Suizokukan) is a public aquarium in Minato-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is a member of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA), and It is the public aquarium with the largest tank capacity and total area in Japan. It also owns Japan ...