Tuesday, April 19, 2011

What is the Japanese word for "Sith" in the English alphabet?

Question:


Does it exist?

When I say Sith... i'm ofc referring to Star Wars Jedi/Sith.

How about in Japanese characters?

Cheers.

Answer:


Sith is a name for an alliance of warrior mages from a galaxy far, far away. Of course, the japanese language has no native word for it.

Foreign names and concepts are written in japanese using the katakana syllabary, which approximates foreign sounds to japanese phonological constraints.

Hence, Sith would be written "シス" (shi-su) in Japanese. In fact, that's the word they use in the japanese Wikipedia.

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