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The following additional procedures will help identify Japanese loanwords that occur in this lesson.
1.
Is there an occurence of syllabic ñ In word-final position or before a vowel it represents English 'n'; with a following gu (or gu), it represents English 'ng'; elsewhere it assimilates to the following sound, representing 'm', 'n', or sounds such as 'ng'.
Examples:
zooñ = 'zone'
noosumookiñgu = 'no smoking'
kañbozia = 'Cambodia'
roñdoñ = 'London'
bañkoku = 'Bangkok'
"...one-fourth of all the characters used in modern Japanese occur in three-fourths of all the most frequently occurring words. This means that by concentrating on learning approximately 500 select characters, the student is assured of being able to read 75% of all the high-frequency words he will encounter in modern literature." - The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power.
