User:Chuterix/Comparison of A and B type romanizations in Old Japanese
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| Type | Index notation (standard in WT) | Ōno | Modified Mathias-Miller | Yale | Frellesvig and Whitman (2008) | JDB[1] | Miyake (2003) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A (甲) | i1 | i | î | yi | i | い｜ | i |
| B (乙) | i2 | ï | ï | iy | wi | ｜い | ɨ |
| Neutral/Unspecified | i | i | i | i | i | い | |
| A (甲) | e1 | e | ê | ye | ye | え｜ | e |
| B (乙) | e2 | ë | ë | ey | e | ｜え | əj |
| Neutral/Unspecified | e | e | e | e | e | え | |
| A (甲) | o1 | o | ô | wo | wo | お｜ | o |
| B (乙) | o2 | ö | ö | o | o | ｜お | ə |
| Neutral/Unspecified | o | ö | ö | o | o | お |
Index notation, Modified Mathias-Miller, Yale, and JDB are lossless, but the first one is opted for the least surprise and it's lossless.
References edit
- ^ This is writing using the equivalent standard vowel. Typically, え｜ transcribes /e/ while ｜え transcribes /ye/.
- Frellesvig, Bjarke, Stephen Wright Horn et al. (eds.) 2023. Oxford-NINJAL Corpus of Old Japanese. Available at: http://oncoj.ninjal.ac.jp/ (accessed January 16, 2024)
- Omodaka, Hisataka (1967) 時代別国語大辞典 上代編 [The dictionary of historical Japanese: Old Japanese] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN