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k and g sound completely different - 09-05-2009, 02:11 PM

k pronunce ku. ka ki ku ke ko..i dont understand properly what you are talking about but g can be ga gi gu ge go , we call these "onomatopoeic" of k sound.
we divide k and g properly. got it?
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09-07-2009, 03:35 AM

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we call these "onomatopoeic" of k sound.
No, we don't. Those are just syllables.

Onomatopoeias are words such as どんどん、きゃんきゃん、パラパラ、グングン, etc.
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k pronunce ku. ka ki ku ke ko..i dont understand properly what you are talking about but g can be ga gi gu ge go , we call these "onomatopoeic" of k sound.
we divide k and g properly. got it?
Not "onomatopoeia." がぎぐげご are the [i]voiced[/b] versions of かきくけこ, which are the voiceless velar plosives. Although actually がぎぐげご could be velar fricative or velar nasal rather than a plosive in some dialects for some words. I actually speak like that because I picked it up somewhere when I was in the US before I went to Japan.
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