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The sound-symbolic words of Japanese can be classified into four main categories: [4] [5] Animate phonomime (擬声語, giseigo) words that mimic sounds made by living things, like a dog's bark (wan-wan). Inanimate phonomime (擬音語, giongo) words that mimic sounds made by inanimate objects, like wind blowing or rain falling (zā-zā).
Language Biting Eating food Drinking Swallowing Brushing teeth Afrikaans: nom, gomf gloeg gloeg gloeg Albanian: ham, kërr, krrëk ham-ham, njam-njam llup, gllup välmos-fësh, fër-fër Arabic: hum-hum humm شرب (sharib) Azerbaijani: nəm nəm qurt qurt fıç fıç Basque: kosk, hozk mauka mauka zurrut klik Batak: nyaum nyaum guk Bengali
The yōon (Japanese: 拗音 (ようおん)) is a feature of the Japanese language in which a mora is formed with an added sound, i.e., palatalized, [1] or (more rarely in the modern language) with an added sound, i.e. labialized.
Japanese phonology has been affected by the presence of several layers of vocabulary in the language: in addition to native Japanese vocabulary, Japanese has a large amount of Chinese-based vocabulary (used especially to form technical and learned words, playing a similar role to Latin-based vocabulary in English) and loanwords from other ...
The bilabial clicks are a family of click consonants that sound like a smack of the lips. They are found as phonemes only in the small Tuu language family (currently two languages, one down to its last speaker), in the ǂ’Amkoe language of Botswana (also moribund), and in the extinct Damin ritual jargon of Australia.
Languages may differ in the context in which ideophones are used. In some languages, ideophones are primarily used in spoken language (e.g. narrative contexts) and are rarely encountered in written language. [6] In other languages (e.g. Ewe, Japanese), ideophones can be freely used in all registers. In general, however, ideophones tend to occur ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Japanese on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Japanese in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The Kishu dialect possesses phonological traits that are common in Kansai dialects. For example, monomoraic words are lengthened to two mora and long u (う) sounds are shortened. E.g., omouta (思うた I thought (Western Japanese)) is said omota (思た) and akaunaru (赤うなる become red) is pronounced akonaru (あこなる). [5]