アルゼンチン

Japanese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Compare French Argentine f (“Argentina; Argentine”, noun) or Argentin m (“Argentine”, adjective), English Argentine (adjective). Early transcriptions of foreign words may have used ゼ (ze) for /(d)ʒe/ more often. Compare also different transcriptions of the word angel: エンゼル (enzeru) and エンジェル (enjeru); or ロサンゼルス (Rosanzerusu, “Los Angeles”).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) アルゼ​ンチン [àrúzéꜜǹchìǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [a̠ɾɯ̟ᵝzẽ̞ɲ̟t͡ɕĩɴ]

Proper noun

アルゼンチン (rōmaji Aruzenchin)

  1. Argentina

References

  1. ↑ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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