Interestingly enough, I just discovered that there's an email list called
"Hakka Forum". Here's a bit regarding Japanese vowels and their similarity
to Hakka:
It is as Dr. Lau has commented, that the Japanese vowels of present day
speech is similar to the vowels in Hakka of the Hong Kong region. But this
is reflected in the short vowels only, as in the english words can, get,
him, mop, sock.
My good friend Thomas Chan who supplied me with the Cantonese tones
earlier, also sent me a copy of his course work handout on the use of
Chinese characters for the transcription of the Kojiki (see earlier message
Re: Hakka Language and Japanese Go-On Borrowings).
In it, there were a list of characters that had been used to transcribe the
individual syllables of Japanese then. Remeber the Kojiki was finished in
712AD, and so had 8 distinct vowels in this old variety of Japanese. They
are the letters
a i1 i2 u e1 e2 o1 o2
On 6/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Spoken like a true Occidental. There are those with the Y and those
without. If there was a misspelling, it probably was one of your people
who did it. But no one can make it into umyhera.
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From: Ross Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:28 pm
Subject: Re: [UC] Auntie Ruth's Hemp Bar
On 6/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> OK, I'm game. You I give credit to for genuinely creative
> writing. That, and you are capable of spelling my name correctly, unlike my
> buddy. But the real problem is that the Orientals left town soon after the
> Negroes. Got it?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> pmuyehara
>
> Dude, you can spell your name any way you want to, but just so you
know, the correct transliteration is "Uehara". That "ye" represents a
vowel that disappeared from the Japanese language over a millennium ago.
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