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Anonymous
3:55 PM
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Q: Hyphenation of romaji names

user11420I'm typesetting an English book that contains the Japanese name Akiyama. Is it allowed to hyphenate romaji transcription of names (I truly hope so!)? If so, how do you do it? I would think it would be between two Japanese letters, i.e., with hyphenation points A-ki-ya-ma. Is this a correct assump...

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Anonymous
If people think this is on-topic, they can always vote to reopen.
 
jkerian
jkerian
7:16 PM
I think an argument could be made that there is an ontopic question hiding in there. Romaji systems are generally well-defined, no matter how unpopular they are with many intermediate-level learners.
But the question needs to be modified to ask about romaji specifically, at which point the answer is a simple "no".
 
 
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Earthliŋ
Earthliŋ
9:32 PM
@snailboat Any chance you can dig up more examples of where the small capital Q is used? I submitted the proposal and was advised to illustrate with real footage. All I have so far is this:
The resolution is quite poor...
Even a picture of a list with Japanese phonemes would be good, to show that people have to use capital letters. Preferably also a picture with small capital N.
(Or a generic reference for phonemic notation, which is always all-small letters...)
 

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