SV: Japanese Pali Orthography / Phonetics
From: Ole Holten Pind
Message: 1362
Date: 2005-10-10
<Does anyone have a concise table of Japanese transliterations for Indic
languages? If such a thing has been published, perhaps someone could scan
it and send it to me, and I could make up a proper table to post to the
internet?>
I have never seen a concise table of Japanese transliterations, which, of
course, does not preclude that it exists. I used to have a Japanese Pali
grammar in my office. I have to admit that I never looked into it, in spite
of the fact that I read Japanese. There is one structural obstacle, though.
In Japan I am called Ore Pindo, and with good reason: The phoneme /l/ does
not exist in Japanese and is therefore not included in the two traditional
syllabic writing systems katakana and hiragana. They would have to invent
it. They probably won't.
Best,
Ole Pind
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