Richard Wordingham wrote:

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> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...> wrote:
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> > The iroha poem has 50 characters. The kana chart doesn't.
>
> The only version of the poem I could find had 47 kana signs, though I
> thought the meter should demand 48. The basic kana charts showed 48 or
> 46, depending on whether they included <we> amd <wi>. They include the
> syllabic nasal, whereas the poem doesn't. Does your version of the
> poem contain *<yi>, *<ye> and *<wu> in addition to <i>, <e> and <u>?

Maybe that's a modern rewrite. I don't have access to it just now.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...