How does the 。 and quotations change the saying of a symbol? [ Ex. し then じ ] - Feed Post by Spot1221
How does the 。 and quotations change the saying of a symbol? [ Ex. し then じ ]
posted by Spot1221
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Well its a different syllable altogether. し = shi じ = ji
。 = acts the same as a normal period to end a sentence as a statement.
Ok thank you
I suppose he was referring to this :
ひ "hi" becomes ぴ "pi".
I call the "quotation" "tenten" and the circle "maru".
There is a linguistic logic behind those signs, but you can learn those syllables as different ones if you prefer.
゛and ゜are diacritical marks--symbols, like accents, which modify the pronunciation of a letter.
゛= 'dakuten' (voicing mark), but is often called 'tenten' (dot-dot).
゜= 'handakuten' (half-voicing mark), but is often called 'maru' (circle).
Basically, between か 'KA' and が 'GA', さ 'SA' and ざ 'ZA', た 'TA' and だ 'DA', etc. the difference is known in phonetics as 'voicing'. Without any diacritical markers, the consonant of the kana is 'voiceless'; with a tenten or maru marker, the consonant of the kana is 'voiced'.
For the voiced kana your vocal chords vibrate to make the sound, whereas for a voiceless kana your vocal chords do not vibrate. It's pretty much the same sound, just with your mouth in a slightly different position to use the airflow differently, and it takes slightly more effort to make the sound.
I'm finding hard to explain this in an effective way... Can just read some wikipedia to find out more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakuten
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_(phonetics)- Second link is really useful, but it didn't show properly. Here's a different link to that same wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_consonant
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