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Japanese has nasal vowels and indeed the "a" in Japanese "pan" is nasalized.
by yorwba 3y ago
Japanese has nasal vowels and indeed the "a" in Japanese "pan" is nasalized.
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoI obviously meant phonemic nasal vowels. In Japanese, nasality of vowels appears in the context of a nasal consonant, so when borrowing the Portuguese word, Japanese had to supply the final consonant.