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Onbin

Onbin (Japanese onbin (音便) "euphony") is a set of sound changes that occurred in Early Middle Japanese around the end of the eighth century to the beginning of the tenth century, first attested in written texts of the Heian period. Onbin changes affected certain consonant-vowel sequences in non-word-initial position, causing them to become replaced with…

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Sound changes

MoraicKanaHigh vowelsHiraganaKatakana
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In verbs and adjectives

GerundKansaiArte da Lingoa de IapamJoão RodriguesLiterary
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Phonetic development

ContinuantsRendaku
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Sound changesEarly Middle JapaneseHeian periodVowelConsonant
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Onbin

Nodes40
Edges39
Triples65
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.05
Components1

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related to Adjective endings · 14
Onbin → Iapam, Kansai, Kanto, Kyoto, Kyushu, Late Middle Japanese, Lingoa, Modern Japanese, Rodrigues' Arte, Standard Japanese, The, The Old Japanese, Two, Using
related to Phonetic development · 10
Onbin → According, After, At, Between, Early Middle Japanese, Frellesvig, It, Namely, Old Japanese, The
related to Verb stems · 10
Onbin → As, Consonant-stem, Early Middle Japanese, Frellesvig, In, In Japanese, Japanese, The, Verbs, When
related to Additional changes · 6
Onbin → By Late Middle Japanese, During Late Middle Japanese, If, These, This, When
related to Reduction to mere prenasalization · 6
Onbin → Examples, However, Japanese, Reduction, The, These
related to Sound changes · 6
Onbin → Four, Japanese, N-onbin, NQ, Q-onbin, The
related to Examples of lexical onbin · 3
Onbin → In, Many, The
related to N-onbin (hatsuonbin) · 3
Onbin → Examples, Frellesvig's, From
related to Q-onbin (sokuonbin) · 3
Onbin → Examples, Frellesvig's, From
related to I-onbin · 2
Onbin → Examples, Frellesvig's

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japanese changes consonant verbs stems u-onbin vowel sound middle form verb standard use end ending following vowels could stem modern

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
daite can occur in place of standard dashite for the gerund of the verb dasuinstance offorms0.80text
/mi/ or /ni/ was reduced to prenasalization of the following consonant without leaving a moraic phoneme behindinstance ofwhere a sequence0.80text
Onbinrelated to Additional changesWhen0.60section
Onbinrelated to Additional changesThese0.60section
Onbinrelated to Additional changesBy Late Middle Japanese0.60section
Onbinrelated to Additional changesDuring Late Middle Japanese0.60section
Onbinrelated to Additional changesIf0.60section
Onbinrelated to Additional changesThis0.60section
Onbinrelated to Adjective endingsTwo0.60section
Onbinrelated to Adjective endingsThe Old Japanese0.60section
Onbinrelated to Adjective endingsLate Middle Japanese0.60section
Onbinrelated to Adjective endingsModern Japanese0.60section

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