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Hiragana
Hiragana is a phonetic writing system which is used for prefixes and suffixes of Chinese characters known as kanji, and Japanese words. There is an example of kanji on my home page.
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Consonants sounds the same as the consonants in the English language. Except "r" which is a sound between l and r, pronounced with the tip of the tongue and is never rolled.
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Short vowels are single vowels like "a" or the "i" in "ki". The way to pronounce the short vowels are: "a" is like the a in father "e" is like the e in red "i" is like the ey in key "o" is like the o in no "u" is like the ue in blue "u" isn't usually pronounced unless it is the initial syllable
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Long vowels sound the same as short vowels except they are twice as long when pronounced. Long vowels are when there is two of the same vowel like "aa" or "ii". |
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The following vowel combinations are pronounced as said: "au" is like the ou in out "ei" is like the ay in day "ou" is like the oa in boat
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Sometimes an "n" will sound like an "m" and is writen as such. This happens if the "n" is before a "b", "m", or "p". For example if you have the word "anma" you would pronounce it and write it as "amma". |
| Hiragana symbols and phonetic equivalents | ||||||||||
 -a |  -i |  -u |  -e |  -o |  -a |  -i |  -u |  -e |  -o | |
 -ka |  -ki |  -ku |  -ke |  -ko |
 -ga |  -gi |  -gu |  -ge |  -go | |
 -sa |  -shi |  -su |  -se |  -so |
 -za |  -ji |  -zu |  -ze |  -zo | |
 -ta |  -chi |  -tsu |  -te |  -to |
 -da |  -ji |  -(d)zu |  -de |  -do | |
 -na |  -ni |  -nu |  -ne |  -no |
 -ma |  -mi |  -mu |  -me |  -mo | |
 -ha |  -hi |  -fu |  -he |  -ho |
 -ba |  -bi |  -bu |  -be |  -bo | |
 -pa |  -pi |  -pu |  -pe |  -po |
 -ra |  -ri |  -ru |  -re |  -ro | |
 -ya | -i |  -yu | -e |  -yo |
 -wa | -i | -u | -e |  -o | |
 -ya | -i |  -yu | -el |  -yo |
 -n |  -(*note1*) |  -(*note2*) | |||
| -sha | -shu | -she | -sho | -cha | -chu | -che | -cho | |
| -fa | -fi | -fe | -fo |
-ja | -ju | -je | -jo |
| -kya | -kyu | -kyo | -gya | -gyu | -gyo | |
| -nya | -nyu | -nyo |
-hya | -hyu | -hyo | |
| -bya | -byu | -byo |
-pya | -pyu | -pyo | |
| -rya | -ryu | -ryo |
-mya | -myu | -myo |
*note1*-(example-
-ppa)symbol seems to be what the next consonant is.*note2*-(example-
-kii)symbol seems to be what the previous vowel is.(in other words it makes the vowel before it into long vowel)*note3*-there are no l's or v's in the Japanese phonetic system, instead they are replaced by similar sounds and this sometimes leads to mistakes in translations. The "l" is replaced by "r" and "v" is replaced by "b".