[EVA] Re: another japanese question

[Rick J Federle, Jr]

On Tue, 18 Nov 1997 16:07:37 +0000 Patrick Yip
<Patrick.Yip at ing-barings.com> writes:
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>     The sound of B is bilabial and V is labiodental. When 
>transcribing 
>     foreign words to katakana in the past, the subtle nuance between 
>these 
>     sounds could not be reflected by the more simplified Japanese 
>sound 
>     system so B and V were reduced to B (ba, bi, bu, be, bo). 
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>     ## I read that B and V are also indistinguishable in Spanish. Is 
>it
>     ## true?
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	From what I remember of Spanish from high school, I think it
depends more on the word more than anything else.  Or it could be like C
and K.  I don't really recall (it has been about 10 or so years).