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  2. Transcription into Japanese - Wikipedia

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    Japanese does not have separate l and r sounds, and l-is normally transcribed using the kana that are perceived as representing r-. [2] For example, London becomes ロンドン (Ro-n-do-n). Other sounds not present in Japanese may be converted to the nearest Japanese equivalent; for example, the name Smith is written スミス (Su-mi-su).

  3. Hepburn romanization - Wikipedia

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    Common for Japanese words that have been adopted into English, and the de facto convention for Hepburn used in signs and other English-language information around Japan. Tôkyô – indicated with circumflex accents, as in the alternative Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanizations. They are often used when macrons are unavailable or difficult ...

  4. Romanization of Japanese - Wikipedia

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    Hepburn romanization generally follows English phonology with Romance vowels. It is an intuitive method of showing Anglophones the pronunciation of a word in Japanese. It was standardized in the United States as American National Standard System for the Romanization of Japanese (Modified Hepburn), but that status was abolished on October 6 ...

  5. Romanization - Wikipedia

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    As an example, consider the Japanese martial art 柔術: the Nihon-shiki romanization zyûzyutu may allow someone who knows Japanese to reconstruct the kana syllables じゅうじゅつ, but most native English speakers, or rather readers, would find it easier to guess the pronunciation from the Hepburn version, jūjutsu.

  6. Transliteration - Wikipedia

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    Localtyping.com implements google transliteration library and also allows to create To-Do Lists in English and Transliterated Languages. 24x7offshoring.com Transliterationenglish. Usage of Transliterations – condensed description of the definition of transliteration and its usage. G. Gerych. Transliteration of Cyrillic Alphabets.

  7. Japanese language and computers - Wikipedia

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    However, the number of characters in Japanese is many more than 256 and thus cannot be encoded using a single byte - Japanese is thus encoded using two or more bytes, in a so-called "double byte" or "multi-byte" encoding. Problems that arise relate to transliteration and romanization, character encoding, and input of Japanese text.

  8. List of ISO romanizations - Wikipedia

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    ISO/TR 11941:1996 (Transliteration of Korean script into Latin characters, withdrawn in 2013) ISO 15919:2001 (Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters) ISO 20674-1:2019 (Transliteration of scripts in use in Thailand — Part 1: Transliteration of Akson-Thai-Noi)

  9. Perception of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese speakers

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    The Japanese liquid is most often realized as an alveolar tap [ɾ], though there is some variation depending on phonetic context. [1] /r/ of American English (the dialect Japanese speakers are typically exposed to) is most commonly a postalveolar central approximant with simultaneous secondary pharyngeal constriction [ɹ̠ˤ] or less commonly a retroflex approximant [ɻ].