Re: Alphabet
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 2, 2001, 23:49 |
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Andreas Johansson wrote:
> From what did these new "p"s arose, or are they just found in loans?
Two sources: p after _n_ or in geminates did not change, so pappyaku
became happyaku (eight hundred). All of the others are in loan words or
onomatopoeia, like "pika-pika suru" "to glitter". There are a few words
I've seen with _p_ non-geminate and not after _n_ written in hiragana, I
don't know if they're just very old loans or if it's a dialectal
influence.
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