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  2. Help:IPA/Japanese - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Japanese

    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.

  3. Mami (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Mami Koyama (小山 茉美; born 1955), Japanese voice actress; Mami Kudo (工藤真実; born 1964), Japanese ultramarathon runner; Mami Matsuyama (松山 まみ; born 1988), Japanese idol and cosplayer; Mami Mizutori (水鳥真美; (born 1960), Japanese diplomat; Mami Naito (内藤 真実; born 1986), Japanese badminton player; Mami Nakamura ...

  4. Japanese pitch accent - Wikipedia

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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").

  5. Mama and papa - Wikipedia

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    Mama and papa use speech sounds that are among the easiest to produce: bilabial consonants like /m/, /p/, and /b/, and the open vowel /a/.They are, therefore, often among the first word-like sounds made by babbling babies (babble words), and parents tend to associate the first sound babies make with themselves and to employ them subsequently as part of their baby-talk lexicon.

  6. List of shibboleths - Wikipedia

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    Suspects not fluent in Spanish either did not know or could not properly pronounce the Spanish word perejil ("parsley"). The pronunciation of the word by Haitian citizens tended to be with a trilled r, unlike the native Spanish tapped r, and without the 'l' at the end of the word. [15]

  7. Are you a ‘Mother’? What to know about the slang word - AOL

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    “In a ballroom context, a mother can be a ‘drag mother’ who teaches a new queen the art and perhaps the business of drag or vogue or emceeing — a present figure who enables their self ...

  8. Japanese name - Wikipedia

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    Japanese names (日本人の氏名、日本人の姓名、日本人の名前, Nihonjin no shimei, Nihonjin no seimei, Nihonjin no namae) in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name. Japanese names are usually written in kanji, where the pronunciation follows a special set of rules. Because parents when naming ...

  9. How do you pronounce MiMo? Tamiami? What about Havana ... - AOL

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    In an international, multilingual city like Miami, maybe not. After all, it wasn’t that long ago when southerners in the Magic City pronounced their hometown as Miamuh.