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[–] threegnomes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

From my understanding the Japanese have a sound between R and L, but neither one on their own

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 9 points 2 years ago

That's Japanese though, this is talking about Chinese. There are a lot of languages and dialects lumped under "Chinese" though. Iirc Mandarin has both an R and an L sound, however I think Cantonese doesn't have an "R" (can't remember, I studied some Mandarin when I was a teenager and I think I remember being told that Cantonese didn't have an "R", but it's been a long time). Not sure about any other languages/dialects.

[–] ssfckdt@mastodon.cloud 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Similarly, Korean transliterations of L and R use the same jamo, ᄅ. In actual use the character is pronounced like either English letter depending on where in the word it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rieul_(hangul)