Japanese language: Difference between revisions

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* /s/ is palatalized as /ʃ/ before /e/. This has been lost in most dialects.

* The Japanese /r/ has considerable variation; [ɾ], [r], and [l] are all of the most common values.

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* Vowel reduction does not occur often in the standard dialect. Polite ''desu'' です is often pronounced fully as /desu/. This is opposed to the reductions in other dialects, shortening it to /des/.

* When two vowels are next to each other with no intervening consonant (a diaeresis), such as in ''sug<u>oi</u>'' すごい (/o̞i/), it is shortened to /eː/. This is not reflected in orthography.