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Pronounciation of Go Terms
   

This page is created as an index of how to correctly pronounce Japanese/Chinese/Korean Go terms.

In general, Japanese is a very simple language to pronounce, at least much easier than English or Chinese, but confusions can arise.

Sebastian: Since English spelling is by its nature not useful to describe pronunciation, I added the pronunciation using [ext] SAMPA.

  • Hane: ("ha-ne", "hane )
  • Igo: ("ee-go", "igo )
  • Joseki: ("joe-sek-ee", dZo"seki )
  • Keima: ("kay-ma", "keima )
  • Tenuki: ("te-noo-ki", te"nuki )
  • Tsuke: ("tsue-keh", "tsuke )

Please feel free to add more, especially of the Chinese/Korean variety, as I know none of those.


RafaelCaetano: There used to be a webpage with recordings of go terms spoken by a native speaker. I can't find it with Google. Anyone has a copy?

I don't think it a good idea to try to explain Japanese pronunciation thru English text (specially when we could use sound files). There are many English dialects.

How does using SAMPA help? If you aren't a linguist, how do you learn the pronunciation of SAMPA symbols, without using English examples? :-) The problem is not confined to English, of course. I took a look at the Portuguese examples and they use the European pronunciation, quite different from Brazilian Portuguese.

Niklaus: I think the link you mean is [ext] this one.



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