How do you translate sounds into japanese that don't exist in Japanese.
For example my name is Avi Feygin. How would that be both written or said in Japanese. V and y don't exist.
what exactly is the character ー
the y is pronounced as a consonant at the end of a syllable by the way.
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/fagin Is this how your name is pronounced? If so, the y serves no actual phonetic purpose other than to mark the change in vowel quality.
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Jul 2, 2007 The important thing to translate was not the literal but some sort of equivalent Sound patterns, so important to both Vincent and to me, often can not be sound patterns may occur and work quite well as a kind of equivalent. it was far easier in English to have nouns without articles,
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The dash is a katakana character that means the preceding vowel is longer and doesn't change in quality; an extended monopthong.
It isn't done by a letter-for-letter transliteration.
"V" sounds typically get replaced by "b". I don't know where you get the idea that "Y" doesn't exist in Japanese. At any rate, it is moot since the "y" contributes nothing to the pronunciation of your name.
the ー character extends the vogal. アビー transcribed into romaji would be something like abii.
edit: not to be confused with 一 (ichi).
no its more like fey gin with a hard G.
Like Faa-why-gin instead of Faa-gin?
Uncle Frank
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Not ever having actually heard your name, I would guess the following:
Avi
アビ
アビー
アヴィ
アヴィー
Feygin
フェーギン
what are you talking about in my last name the y is not silent.
Avi Feygin
アビ・フェイゲン
Would be the closest approximation, if it's pronounced the way I've heard it.
I think what Mike Cash meant is that the Y in your name is not pronounced like the japanese Y, since it is only used as part of a vowel sound. Your first name could probably be written a number of ways, depending on how you would prefer it pronounced. アビ is the simplest way to do it.
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