Last Updated：2025/11/19

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fortis

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Source Word

fortis

IPA(Pronunciation)

not-comparable

(phonetics) Strongly articulated (of a consonant), hence voiceless.

Japanese Meaning

強く発音される子音、すなわち発音時に息の流れが強く、無声音として現れる音を指す。

What is this buttons?

The researcher noted that the fortis consonants in the dialect were realized with greater aspiration than their lenis counterparts.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

研究者は、その方言では強く調音された（つまり無声の）子音が、対になる弱勢の子音よりも強いアスピレーションで実現されると指摘した。

Sense（1）

(phonetics) Strongly articulated (of a consonant), hence voiceless.

All vowels, whether short or complex, are relatively shorter when followed by a fortis consonant and relatively longer when followed by a lenis one or, for those where this is possible, when no consonant follows (in free or unchecked syllables).

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

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