Syllabic n in Japanese (was: Korean politeness levels)

Right.  And "fun'iki" would be /fun=iki/, where "funiki" would be /funiki/.

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:20:06PM -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
> "?j" seems to be Sanskritist tradition-- _of course_ the nasal before a
> palatal is also palatal.  The final "-?" look like Kash (which I don't like
> either, but couldn't use "ng" and refused to use "N"  mixing UC with lc....
> The rest is all eminently sensible.  I guess my ignorant question would be:
> is there a difference in pronunciation between "fun'iki" "{fun.iki} and
> (hypothetical?) "funiki" {fu.ni.ki} ??  (Well, yes, I guess-- fun'iki would
> be 4 morae/syllables?)