Quick Q about Japanese (10)

1 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2006-06-13 04:06 ID:074WW42C

Hey!

This is a really silly question - what's the difference between characters such as ヤ and ャ or イ and ィ?

They seem to alter the meanings of words; but I don't know how, because nobody I know can give me a definitive answer.

Thanks!

2 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2006-06-13 05:51 ID:Heaven

There is a board specifcly for Japanese. look at the top of the board. To ansewr your question, the small letters are combined with normal ones to form different syllabals (spelling lol), e.g.

み = mi
や = ya
みゃ = mya

ふ = fu
い = i
ふぃ = fi

Small tsus are used to show a double consanent sound.

きこ = kiko
きっこ = kikko

ミトン = miton
ミットン = mitton

3 Name: 2 : 2006-06-13 06:06 ID:Heaven

Well, its not really a double consanent sound, but whatever.

4 Name: 1 : 2006-06-13 18:27 ID:074WW42C

>There is a board specifcly for Japanese. look at the top of the board.

Whoops! Sorry about that :x

Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks!

5 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2006-07-01 05:34 ID:fH5UR2gp

>>3

It's a geminated consonant, which, for all intents and purposes is a fancy way of saying "doubled consonant".

At first I believed it was a glottal stop, but I quickly realized that words like "ippen" proved that wrong, as there is a full labial closure and holding of the consonant, then re-opening with that same consonant. An Anglophone likely feels the need to literally double the (erroneous) aspiration on the consonant as well, giving: ip_h-p_hen; but none of the Japanese consonants are initially aspriated in the first place.

6 Name: 名無し : 2006-07-04 21:58 ID:dNLYfWhn

Mm

7 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2006-07-04 21:59 ID:dNLYfWhn

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9 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-05-18 14:07 ID:Heaven

HI MY QUESTION IS SO QUICK I CAN'T EVEN WRITE THE WORD QUESTION IN THE THREAD TITLE

10 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-05-20 11:41 ID:Heaven

あ゙〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜

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