Thursday, December 15, 2011

What would this name be in Japanese?

Question:


I was looking at Katakana and Hiragana and notice that all of the letters have consonant-vowel sounds (i.e. Ta, ki, yu,) instead of vowel-consonant. So what would "Emily" be in Japanese, if there are no vowel-consonant combination syllables?

It would really help if you could paste links to pictures of whatever letters or symbols you talk about.

Thanks.

Answer:


written エミリー and pronounced: eh-mee-ree-ee romanized: emirii


the name just changes to fit the japanese syllabary as accurately as poosibel (l's usually get replaced by r's)


EDIT: katakana characters in order: e, mi, ri, ---

--- is katakana shorthand for a doubled vowel


EDIT2: the --- is actually written vertically when writing vertically, the characters do not change





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