Sunday, June 24, 2018

readings - Statistics of on-yomi phonemes/syllables


On-yomi of kanji feel a bit like they all sound alike. For instance, vowels /o/ and /u/ are over-represented.

Are there statistics of phoneme counts or syllable counts for on-yomi compared to kun-yomi? Something like: the top-100 syllables make up 20% of syllables for kun but 40% for on.




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