Re: Tsuhon: tentative phonology

D Tse wrote:
> Isn't the orthographical _f_ in Japanese an allophone of /h/ for after a
> rounded front vowel
It's an allophone of /h/ before /u/.  Ha, hi ([Ci]), fu, he, ho.  There
are no "rounded front vowels" in Japanese.

But more recent borrowings have [P] elsewhere, like _foto_, but earlier
borrowings were conformed to that allophony, e.g., _koohii_ < _coffee_

> and in actual fact a bilabial fricative, and _v_ (a
> recently new sound added to spell some foreign words) the voiced version of
> that?
_V_ is new, and, as I understand it, is often pronounced as /b/.

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