• TheBluePillock@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    These are predictable rules at least. ん assumes the following place of articulation, and high vowels go unvoiced at the end of words or between two unvoiced consonants.

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      3 days ago

      Yep. There are rules. Just trying to make the point that the orthography on its own doesn’t 100% accurately tell one everything.

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        2 days ago

        Yeah, fair enough. It’s a lot more predictable than English, but if you don’t know the rules, kana alone would be insufficient for proper pronunciation. (Pitch accent is a whole other story.)