Re: Futurese

On 1 May 02, at 14:31, Javier BF wrote:

> >    And I'm absolutely baffled at how you came up with 11 consonants for
> >Japanese.  I counted 27 just now, and that was without getting picky.
>
> Japanese 27 consonants!!?? And may I know which ones those
> are??
I count

k g s sh z j t ch d n h b p m y r w = 17. If you count palatalised
consonants ("youon") separately (and not as cons + y), add ky gy ny hy
by py my ry for a total of 25. If you want to get to 27, maybe you need
to include ts and <null>.

One could also consider counting "dz" and "dj" as separate from "z" and
"j", though they're pronounced identically nowadays AFAIK.

Then there are also doubled consonants ("sokuon"), though they could be
considered simply as cons + cons. So happyaku "800" could be either h-a-
p-p-y-a-k-u or h-a-ppy-a-k-u or something in between.

Cheers,
Philip
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