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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(linguistics) In Old Japanese, one of two sets of vowels of uncertain pronunciation which fell together in modern Japanese..
Later—during the ninth century—the kō and otsu groups did come to be used interchangeably.
He rejects the claim of Matsumoto (1984) that the kô and otsu -o- vowels are in complementary distribution, and therefore these two vowels are allophones of a single vowel.
Use otsu when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Otsu means (linguistics) In Old Japanese, one of two sets of vowels of uncertain pronunciation which fell together in modern Japanese..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Later—during the ninth century—the kō and otsu groups did come to be used interchangeably.
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