Friday, November 25, 2011

Why Japanese pronounce "ga" as"nga" ?

Question:


mostly in musics I noticed they often do this. and not just the particle, but pretty much in any word that contains that hiragana letter (though i'm not sure about names and other words that use katakana).

why did they do this, Is this just another variety of pronunciation like those lot we found in English?

Answer:


Two reasons:
1) nga sounds better musically
when we learn singing, we are instructed to pronounce nga instead of ga
2) the original sound of ga is nga in old Japanese called Yamato Kotoba

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