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The name Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu translates roughly as "the summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the slider, climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his kōauau (flute) to his loved one".
Keon is a masculine given name. Depending on its spelling it could be of Persian or Gaelic Irish origin. As (Persian: کیان), it is a common Persian given name meaning "king" or "realm" “God is Gracious”. In English, it is a variant of the given name Cian
Both represent [ki] and are derived from a simplification of the 幾 kanji. The hiragana character き, like さ , is drawn with the lower line either connected or disconnected. A dakuten may be added to the character; this transforms it into ぎ in hiragana, ギ in katakana, and gi in Hepburn romanization .
Square brackets are used with phonetic notation, whether broad or narrow [17] – that is, for actual pronunciation, possibly including details of the pronunciation that may not be used for distinguishing words in the language being transcribed, but which the author nonetheless wishes to document. Such phonetic notation is the primary function ...
Note that place names are not generally exempted from being transcribed in this abstracted system, so rules such as the above must be applied in order to recover the local pronunciation. Examples include place names in much of England ending -ford, which although locally pronounced [-fəd] are transcribed /-fərd/. This is best practice for ...
This is a list of Korean given names, in Hangul alphabetical order. See Korean name § Given names for an explanation. List Ga ... Ki-nam 기남) Ki-moon ...
Suddenly, a red light camera ticket arrives in your mailbox bearing your name but you weren't even driving that day. This frustrating scenario is catching many drivers off guard.
On the other hand, the IPA (being designed to represent sounds from any language in the world) is not as intuitive for those chiefly familiar with English orthography, for whom this respelling system is likely to be easier for English words and names. So, while the IPA is the required form of representing pronunciation, respelling remains optional.