Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 23, 2004, 1:25 |
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On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 07:43:25PM -0500, Trebor Jung wrote:
> Wow, quite a joke! Does Japanese have phonemic /M/, or is it an allophone
> of /u/? Is it marked in romagi?
Japanese has /M/ *instead* of /u/. The sound is normally Romanized as
<u>, but the sound [u] does not exist in most dialects of Japanese,
although some have it as an allophone of /M/.
Oh, and its "romaji" or "romazi", pronounced [romadZi]. The
Romanization *"romagi" would be pronounced [romagi].
-Mark