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Originally Posted by Cayla
The japanese alphabet...
do you call the same letter as what that letter says,
or is there two different ways? like you say A by it self, but say a when
its with another letter.
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The kana (hiragana and katakana) wouldn't be considered alphabets as such. I think they are more a list of phonetic syllables used in Japanese writing. Apart from the vowels there are only two "letters" that use the same symbol. N and M use the same symbol ん. All other characters in hiragana, for example, use two or three roman letters to describe them. I hope I didn't complicate things for you!
I guess you can say Ma, Me, Mi, Mo, Mu, Ra, Re, Ri, Ro, Ru, etc.