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13 hours ago · The phonology of Japanese features a phonemic inventory including five vowels ( /a, e, i, o, u/) and 12 [1] or more consonants (the number of consonant phonemes varies greatly depending on how certain sounds are analyzed). The phonotactics are relatively simple, allowing for few consonant clusters.
4 days ago · In Japanese, fewer than half of the words have a drop in pitch; words contrast according to which syllable this drop follows. Such minimal systems are sometimes called pitch accent since they are reminiscent of stress accent languages, which typically allow one principal stressed syllable per word.
4 days ago · The voiced alveolar lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar lateral approximants is l , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is l . As a sonorant, lateral approximants are nearly always voiced.
2 days ago · Kakari musubi existed in Proto-Japonic but died out in the Japanese branch; however, it is still preserved in its sister branch, Ryukyuan, in the Okinawan language.This concord phenomenon, observed in only a few languages of the world, presents diverse issues concerning its evolution from origin to demise, the functional and semantic differences of its kakari particles (e.g., question-forming Old Japanese ka vs. ya) and positional (sentence-medial vs. sentence-final) contrast.
3 days ago · Fortunately, you can learn the basics with a few words that’ll enable you to ask a wide range of formal or informal questions. In this post, I’ll show you all of the Japanese question words you need, with explanations and examples of how to use them.
3 days ago · Contents. Which Japanese Adjectives Should You Learn First? How to Conjugate い-Adjectives. How to Conjugate な-Adjectives. How to Distinguish Between い-Adjectives and な-Adjectives in Japanese. いい: The Only Irregular Adjective in Japanese. Japanese Adjective Endings. 過ぎる (すぎる) — Too [adj] そう — Looks like, seems like [adj] くなる — Become [adj]
3 days ago · Learn the basics of cardinal and ordinal numbers, now to count people and things and the significance of numbers in Japanese culture. And while you’re here, you can even master Japanese number pronunciation by clicking on any of the Japanese words to hear their audio!
