Re: How is Hoooo pronounced?

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On Oct 17, 11:19 am, Harlan Messinger
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LEXICAL QUANTITY IN JAPANESE AND FINNISH
Toshiko Isei-Jaakkola
In Japanese a vowel sequence with a maximum of four vowel phonemes is
possible as
listed in the above section. Since the Japanese aoi does not have a
morphological
boundary, there may be triphthongs in Japanese. A sequence of four
identical vowels is
exemplified as follows:
Toooo /to|o.o|o/ ('Eastern Europe')
Hoooo /ho|o.o|o/ ('Pope').
What do the vertical bars and the dots mean?
This unbelievable (but apparently true).
Europe = youroppa, yo-roppa
East = azuma, touzainanboku, higashi, roppou, i-suto
How could they possibly get toooo by putting them together?
They didn't. They also didn't get "Tokyo" (tookyoo, "eastern capital")
from azuma or touzainaboku or higashi or roppou or i-suoto.- Hide quoted text -
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tô (east) + kyô (capital)) from wikiperdia.

My guide said it meant East Kyoto (does kyoto means capital?).

"Kyoo" = "capital" in both Tokyo (tookyoo) and Kyoto (kyooto). But Tokyo has "too" = "east", while Kyoto has "to" = "big city".

Tokyo
looks to me like a double entendre. It is kyoto backwards (syllables
reversed) and it also reads as East Kyoto. I asked why East Kyoto
wasn't called Higashi Kyo. Someone said there would be no spelling
difference between To Kyo and Higashi Kyo, so one can read the
spelling of To Kyo as Higashi Kyo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%27yomi#Readings
.

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