Re: Optimum number of symbols
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 21, 2002, 5:02 |
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On 20 May 02, at 23:27, Jake X wrote:
> >From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
> >
> >Jake X wrote:
> > > For example, the
> > > word "katakana," the name of one of its alphabets, is written
> >ka-ta-ka-n-a.
> >
> >ka-ta-ka-na, actually. ka-ta-ka-n-a would be romanized as katakan'a,
> >which would be a syllabic /n/ between the last two /a/'s.
>
> Really, for some reason I thought the only [n] in Japanese was sylabic.
Nope. There's both |n| as syllable-final and the normal na-ni-nu-ne-no
range (plus the you-on nya nyu nyo).
Compare kanen "inflammable" and kan'en "hepatitis", for example.
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>
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