スタジオ

Japanese

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps from English studio, whose English vowel /uː/ is transcribed into Japanese as a instead of *u or *ū, perhaps due to phonetic confusion with study. Compare Italian studio (“room for study”), English study (“room for reading and writing”).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) スタジオ [sùtájíó] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [sɨ̥ᵝta̠ʑio̞]

Noun

スタジオ (rōmaji sutajio)

  1. a studio

References

  1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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