Meaning of otsu | Babel Free

Definitions

In Old Japanese, one of two sets of vowels of uncertain pronunciation which fell together in modern Japanese.

not-comparable

Examples

“Later—during the ninth century—the kō and otsu groups did come to be used interchangeably.”

“He rejects the claim of Matsumoto (1984) that the kô and otsu -o- vowels are in complementary distribution, and therefore these two vowels are allophones of a single vowel.”

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