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shiro | 8 years ago
Most notable one is conflation of vowel [イ] and [エ]. Often both are denoted with "i", sometimes one of them is "yi". In modern American English the sound /i/ falls in middle of Japanese イ and エ. I'm not sure in this case that it's because of that, or Ryukyu dialect had shifted vowels.
セ is denoted as "she" (usually "se"). This variation of consonant appears in some Japanese dialect.
ヒ is denoted as "fi". Might stem from old Japanese pronunciation.
Curiously, ヰ is denoted as "i" and ヱ is denoted as "yi/ye/e". Usually they are "wi" and "we", but those pronunciations have been lost in modern Japanese.
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