- Japanese え sound - [ɛ] or [e]? - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
Japanese, a language which has 3-level vowel height system, does not have the distinction of e and ɛ Or speaking more correctly, Japanese え and お are (true) mid vowels, that their sweet spots fall just midway of theoretical [e] and [ɛ] (We write them [e̞] and [o̞] in IPA if necessary ) (chart from Wikipedia) And as far as the Standard Japanese concerned, there is no conditional
- 手えふった - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
The small ぇ in 手ぇふった is a way of indicating in writing the compensatory lengthening of the vowel in a single-mora word that sometimes occurs when the following case particle を is omitted in familiar speech This is described in The Phonology of Japanese (Labrune 2012) in section 2 7 5, 'Prosodic Lengthening' So as Yang Muye says, it means 手をふった
- Differences among -たら, なら, -と, -んだったら, -ば, etc
The Japanese language has a lot of patterns for "if" clauses What are the differences among the following patterns and how do we choose to use one over the others?: 行くと 行ったら 行くなら 行けば 行くんだったら 行くのなら
- あかさたなはまやらわ - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
I mastered the sequences of あかさたなはまやらわ, いきしちにひみいりい, うくすつぬふむゆるう, えけせてねへめえれえ and おこそとのほもよろを using the latter half of this children's song (written by a famous poet), and this was probably when I was a kindergartner
- おねいちゃん vs おねえちゃん - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
おねいちゃん is just a misspelling of おねえちゃん This word probably contains lengthened vowel from ane: ane → nē, so there is no rationale for ei in this word
- Why were ゐ and ゑ eliminated? - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
Sometime in the early 20th century, usage of the now-historical kana ゐ and ゑ (and their katakana equivalents) dropped off, being replaced with い and え in modern Japanese What exactly happened here
- Why has を been spared but ゐ and ゑ been deemed obsolete?
In present Japanese, the use of を other than as a case particle is practially ignorable While を helps to identify an accusative case particle, は and へ actually make it difficult to locate these particles For this reason, in Japanese braille, を is written as を, but the particles は and へ are written as わ and え respectively
- Whats the difference between - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
I've been meaning to ask this for a while What is the difference between these 3 words I was taught they all mean "why", but obviously, being different words they convey different nuance and wou
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