Hey!
This is a really silly question - what's the difference between characters such as ヤ and ャ or イ and ィ?
They seem to alter the meanings of words; but I don't know how, because nobody I know can give me a definitive answer.
Thanks!
There is a board specifcly for Japanese. look at the top of the board. To ansewr your question, the small letters are combined with normal ones to form different syllabals (spelling lol), e.g.
み = mi
や = ya
みゃ = mya
ふ = fu
い = i
ふぃ = fi
Small tsus are used to show a double consanent sound.
きこ = kiko
きっこ = kikko
ミトン = miton
ミットン = mitton
>There is a board specifcly for Japanese. look at the top of the board.
Whoops! Sorry about that :x
Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks!
It's a geminated consonant, which, for all intents and purposes is a fancy way of saying "doubled consonant".
At first I believed it was a glottal stop, but I quickly realized that words like "ippen" proved that wrong, as there is a full labial closure and holding of the consonant, then re-opening with that same consonant. An Anglophone likely feels the need to literally double the (erroneous) aspiration on the consonant as well, giving: ip_h-p_hen; but none of the Japanese consonants are initially aspriated in the first place.
Mm
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HI MY QUESTION IS SO QUICK I CAN'T EVEN WRITE THE WORD QUESTION IN THE THREAD TITLE
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