Hiragana/Katakana(Japanese Letter) by andy1260

andy1260

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11th Feb 2018

12th Feb 2018

Now we can write japanese on TPT. I hope to make Kanji(Chinese Letter) someday.

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  Holly866_668 14th Oct 2019
  " = dakuten............................... we = u{e} / v? = u" | u"a | u"i | u"e | u"o / zi = ze{i} / du = do{u} / ye = i{e} / (WO is usually pronounced as O || I forgot to mention that HE is pronounced E, and HA is pronounced WA //only when it's used as the *topic particle*// [Google it]) wo = u{o} ============= The End
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  Holly866_668 14th Oct 2019
  --Katakana Differences--......................... {XYZ} = small kana................................. "si" as in "see" = se{i} , "tu" = to{u}, ti = te{i}, she/che/... = [?I sound]{e} | di = de{i} / wi = u{i}
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  Holly866_668 14th Oct 2019
  Sometimes, final U's and I's like those in ,desu' (copula like "to be") and ,suki' (like "desirable") are *devoiced*, where they are VERY quiet/virtually omitted.
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  Holly866_668 14th Oct 2019
  ,Dakuten' and ,handakuten' (first looks like quotes, second looks like a degree sign) are attached to a plosive or fricative to switch to its voiced variant. Handakuten turn H into P, and rarely, are used to make G into NG (this as a pronunciation change is called ,bidakuon' and is common with Tokyo dialects).
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  Holly866_668 14th Oct 2019
  The *syllabic* N is its own *mora* (a unit of "syllabic" timing) that can occur after any syllable, but rarely ever at the beginning of a word [never in native words]. Any vowel before it is *nasalized*, or said with additional nasal airflow. It becomes /n/ before a *syllable-initial* N (still nasalizing the wovel before it), an M sound before B/P/M (a property of nasals found in virtually all languages), and NG before a G or K.
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  Holly866_668 14th Oct 2019
  Long vowels in hiragana are written with more kana: aa, ii, u, EI/ee, and OU/oo. In katakana, they use a simple long-dash-like symbol called the chou'onpu. In both syllabaries, long //consonants// use their small tsu-- a tsu symbol, but small, //before// the lengthened consonant.
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  Holly866_668 14th Oct 2019
  These *you'on* are always written with the I-row (I-column here) kana. This pattern continues for all such ones [possibly WI historically] except I (obviously) and YI (doesn't exist), voiced included.
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  Holly866_668 14th Oct 2019
  F and TS are *allophones* of H and T, sounds that are differences in different situations (specifically, here when preceding U). CH and SH, though, are phonemic. | Note the gaps-- WI and WE are obsolete and merged with I and E, while YI, YE, and WU never existed. This will be important.</tangent> | CHA/-U/-O are represented by small YA, YU, and YO kana respectively (Japanese vowel order is A-I-U-E-O). The same is true of the SH-versions.
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  Holly866_668 14th Oct 2019
  For example, ,koukou' [Long O is almost always spelled in hiragana and romanized in ASCII as "ou" and "ei" for long E, but exceptions exist for both] means "high sch**l", but ,koko' means "here". The Latin alphabet (romanization's target script) is called romaji, and DO NOT RELY ON ROMAJI FOR JAPANESE. DO NOT RELY ON ROMAJI FOR JAPANESE. DO NOT RELY ON ROMAJI FOR JAPANESE!!
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  Holly866_668 14th Oct 2019
  Vowels can also be *long* (lengthened) or short (unlengthened) [the English "ee" is technically "long", but it doesn't matter in EN.]. This is *phonemic*, so it changes meaning. Consonants can also be long, where plosives have longer "closed" periods and *fricatives*, sounds like S, SH, and F, are lengthened as in vowels.