The house of Babel

May 2, 2008

が ぎ ぐ げ ご

Filed under: Japanese, general thoughts — admin @ 8:58 pm

Does anybody know there are two kinds of pronunciations for が ぎ ぐ げ ご. Anybody knows that those can be pronounced as [ga gi gu ge go].

Not so many people know you can also pronounce those as [ŋa ŋi ŋu ŋe ŋo].

The way to tell the difference is easy.

1, if the character is in the first part of the word, you pronounce as [ga gi gu ge go].

2, if the character is not in the first part of the word, it is [ŋa ŋi ŋu ŋe ŋo].

You can ask Japanese about that. But if they did not know about this, which does not mean that does not exist. Normally if you want to become a Japanese announcer, you’d better practise those.

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