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ウォ Instead of ヲ
何で日本人は「ヲ」がなくて「ウォ」に使う?
Why Japanese instead of "ヲ" use "ウォ"
ありがとう!Thanks!
Jan 15, 2013 2:30 PM
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フェニョさん、こんばんは。
Its pronunciation was "wo", but "w" has been lost, as the time went by.
Other than object marker, 「を」 is not used in modern Japanese.
It shares the same phoneme with「お」.
Since you write it in katakana, not hiragana, I assume you mean ‘loan words’, like 「ウォール街」.
Council for National Language from Ministry of Education, Science and Clture showed
the guideline for how to write loanwords.
The below is in Japanese, but it has the table on each foreign sound should be written in katakana.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%96%E6%9D%A5%E8%AA%9E#.E5.A4.96.E6.9D.A5.E8.AA.9E.E3.81.AE.E8.A1.A8.E8.A8.98
January 16, 2013
わかりません。そういうものだと思うしかないのでは?
January 16, 2013
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