Japanese Language Asked on November 25, 2021
Wiktionary has two transcriptions:
私
(Tokyo)¹ わ[たし]{——}² [wàtáshí]³ (Heiban⁴ – [0]⁵)
IPA: [[ɰᵝa̠ta̠ɕi]]
What is the 1st one called and how is it read?
The Wiktionary entry as I found it looks as follows:
Pronunciation
- (Tokyo) わ[たし]【HH】 [wàtáshí] (Heiban – [0])
- IPA: [[ɰᵝa̠ta̠ɕi]]
Let's take a look what this means:
(Tokyo)
means the listed pronunciation is for the Tokyo dialect
わ[たし]【HH】
pitch accent notation with [◯]【H】 indicating a high pitch
[wàtáshí]
indicating pitch accent in a romanization (using the grave and acute accent diacritics on the vowel, with the acute accent ´
indicating high pitch)
(Heiban – [0])
indicating that the pitch accent is of the heiban-gata type, i.e. first mora ("syllable") has a low pitch and all subsequent morae have a high pitch — in dictionaries this would be denoted [0] since the number in brackets indicates after which mora the drop in pitch occurs (and in わたし there is no drop in pitch)
IPA: [[ɰᵝa̠ta̠ɕi]]
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) notation with
Answered by Earthliŋ on November 25, 2021
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