コンテンポラリー カタカナ

[buck4155967]

Is コンテンポラリー カタカナ(contemporary katakana) the correct term to describe the newer katakana syllabary for:
ファ (fa)
フィ (fi)
フェ (fe)
フォ (fo)
フュ (fyu)
ウィ (wi)
ウェ (we)
ウォ (wo)
ヴァ (va)
ヴィ (vi)
ヴェ (ve)
ヴォ (vo)
ツァ (tsa)
ツィ (tsi)
ツェ (tse)
ツォ (tso)
チェ (che)
シェ (she)
ジェ (je)
ティ (ti)
ディ (di)
デュ (du)
トゥ (tu)

If not, what is the correct Japanese grammatical term?

[thegooseking]

buckさん,

I'm not sure what they're called in Japan, but I would guess that their distinguishing feature is not that they are contemporary, but that they are used exclusively to render non-Japanese words.

Therefore I would call them 外来語カタカナ ("gairaigo katakana") - katakana that is used in loanwords (although you're right that it's only used in loanwords that have recently entered Japanese - older loanwords are more often conformed to Japanese phonology).

These digraphs come from several reports by the Japanese government in the 20th century on how to write gairaigo words, most notably the Bunkachō's (文化庁; Agency for Cultural Affairs) 1991 report 外来語の表記 (gairaigo no hyōki; "Orthography of Loanwords").

Although you asked for the correct term, and I can't promise that that is correct. It's just a guess.

小狼

[buck4155967]

Interesting.
Thank you.

[community.japanese]

buck4155967 san,

Transcribing the pronunciation of foreign words in phonetic symbols has been changing.
I don’t think I have seen フュ (fyu) however, others are ok.
Fyu should be ヒュ.


小狼さん、
どうもありがとうございました。

Yuki 由紀
Team JapanesePod101.com

[buck4155967]

由紀さん

Thank you very much for reply.

Are you certain that フュ (fyu) should be ヒュ?

フュ appears in the table at the bottom of this page http://www.coscom.co.jp/learnjapanese80 ... table.html

Does JapanesePod101.com have a similar set of tables available?

(I am upgrading to Premium Plus on Saturday.)

Thank you,
Buck

[community.japanese]

Buck san,
Languages are changing so it’s not surprising if new katakana creates.
We have katakana page so please have a look.

http://www.japanesepod101.com/learn-katakana/

Yuki　由紀
Team JapanesePod101.com