Early loanwords in this language allow sequential voicing in compounds, but new ones are immune, despite Lyman's law.
Voiced obstruents and /p/ trigger geminate devoicing in this language's loanwords. Early loanwords in this language allow sequential voicing in compounds, but new ones are immune, despite Lyman's law. Since this language bans nonÂ­nasal codas, its loanwords epenthesize /u/, except after /h/, /t/, and /d/, which its speakers perceived in a Dupoux et al. study. Taiwan uses a spiral letter of this language as a playful possessive marker. This language did not borrow "thank you" from Portuguese. It coins pseudoÂ­English (*) wasei portmanteaus like pasokon via backÂ­clipping. It verbs loanwords with the suffix suru. English borrowed skosh, bokeh, rickshaw, and tycoon from this language. It writes loanwords in one of its three scripts, conflating the sounds /r/ and /l/. Over half its lexicon is from Chinese. For 10 points, name this East Asian language that uses three scripts: hiragana, katakana, and kanji.
Voiced obstruents and /p/ trigger geminate devoicing in this language's loanwords.
Japanese [or Nihongo]