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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.
Newfoundland: Some outsiders pronounce the island name almost as if it were three separate words, / nj uː ˈ f aʊ n d l ə n d / new-FOWND-lənd rather than the local pronunciation, / ˌ nj uː f ən ˈ l æ n d / NEW-fən-LAND, rhyming with "understand". [42] Regina, Saskatchewan: Pronounced / r ɪ ˈ dʒ aɪ n ə / rij-EYE-nə, [43] rhyming ...
In 2011, the Bali Cultural Agency estimated that the number of people still using the Balinese language in their daily lives on Bali Island does not exceed 1 million, as in urban areas their parents only introduce the Indonesian language or even English as a foreign language, while daily conversations in the institutions and the mass media have ...
Bali (English: / ˈ b ɑː l i /; Balinese: ᬩᬮᬶ) is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands.East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller offshore islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nusa Ceningan to the southeast.
The word Jawa written in Javanese script Two Javanese speakers, recorded in Indonesia. Javanese (/ ˌ dʒ ɑː v ə ˈ n iː z / JAH-və-NEEZ, [3] / dʒ æ v ə-/ JAV-ə-, /-ˈ n iː s /- NEESS; [4] basa Jawa, Javanese script: ꦧꦱꦗꦮ, Pegon: باسا جاوا , IPA: [bɔsɔ d͡ʒɔwɔ]) is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Javanese people from the central and eastern ...
Some analysts argue that the use of [ti, di] in loanwords shows that the change of /ti/ to [tɕi] is an inactive, 'fossilized' rule, and conclude that [tɕi] must now be analyzed as containing an affricate phoneme distinct from /t/; others argue that pronunciation of /ti/ as [tɕi] continues to be an active rule of Japanese phonology, but that ...
The Javanese (/ dʒ ɑː v ə ˈ n iː z /, jah-və-NEEZ, [17] / dʒ æ v-/ jav-, /-ˈ n iː s /- NEESS; [18] Javanese: ꦮꦺꦴꦁꦗꦮ, romanized: Wong Jawa (in the ngoko register), ꦠꦶꦪꦁꦗꦮꦶ, Tiyang Jawi (in the krama register); [19] Indonesian: Orang Jawa) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the central and eastern part of the Indonesian island of Java.
Japanese is an East Asian language spoken by about 126 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the official language and national language. The influx of Japanese loanword can be classified into two periods, Japanese colonial administration period (1942–1945) and globalisation of Japanese popular culture (1980–now).