☢ Japanese Reclists ☢

☆ Stats ☆

Reclist	String Count	Avg. String Length	Est. Time to Record	OTO Length	Max Pitches
Minimum CV	102	1 mora	15 min	102	321
Standard CV	163	1 mora	20 min	163	201
Rentan CV	18	9 morae	5 min	144	227
Efficiency VCV	136	8 morae	35 min	958	34
7-Mora VCV	174	7 morae	45 min	958	34
5-Mora VCV	233	5 morae	45 min	958	34
8-Mora CVVC	34	8 morae	10 min	312	105
2-Mora CVVC	158	2 morae	25 min	428	76

☆ Notation ☆

These are indicative of how I write reclists. If you're using a list made by someone other than me, it may be handled differently in some ways.

Punctuation

• [_] in the middle of a string represents a single beat of silence between syllables.
• [-] in the middle of a string represents no pause between syllables and is just there for readability.
• ['] in between vowels represents a glottal stop.
• [_][___][+__][C__] etc. at the beginning of a string is just there for organizational purposes.

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Kana and Romanization

For non-standardized kana / romanization, I followed common conventions or else used what felt logical.

• The syllabic nasal [ん] is represented with [N] in some VCV and CVVC lists (but not their aliases) to indicate its varied pronunciation.
• Syllabic nasals in vowel strings are marked as [ん・ン・ン2] or [n, ng, m].
• [ng] as a CV may use the <k> hiragana set with handakuten, e.g. [か゚], but this is more difficult to type so instead I use the <g> katakana set, like [ガ].
• [th] as in <thing> and [dh] as in <this> use the <s> and <z> katakana sets, e.g. [サ・ザ]. [dhi] and [zhi] are differentiated as [ジ・ジィ].
• Other reclists may use [rr] to represent an English <r> instead of a trilled <r>. I include both by having English <r> be written as [wr], which follows English orthography and alludes to its manner of articulation.
• There is not a good way to differentiate between the four liquids [r, l, rr, wr] in kana, so I put a [2] after the less commonly used phonemes, e.g. [ら・ラ・ら2・ラ2].
• [を] is treated as if it is pronounced as [うぉ] rather than [お].

☆ Pronunciation Guide ☆

(for English speakers)

Standard Phonemes

IPA	Romaji	かな	English Appoximation	Notes
a	a	あ	FATHER	More fronted in the mouth, between FATHER and BACK
i	i	い	FLEECE
ɯ	u	う	GOOSE	Lips unrounded
e	e	え	FACE	Not a diphthong
o	o	お	GOAT	Not a diphthong
n	n	ん	BUTTON	Syllabic nasal
k	k	か	KILL	Unaspirated
g	g	が	GILL
s	s	さ	SIP
ɕ	sh	し	SHIP	Tongue slightly further back
z	z	ざ	ZIP
dʑ	j	じ	JEEP	Tongue slightly further back
t	t	た	TEN	Unaspirated
tɕ	ch	ち	CHEAP	Tongue slightly further back
ts	ts	つ	CATS
d	d	だ	DEN
n	n	な	NICE
h	h	は	HILL
ɸ	f	ふ	FILE	Produced with the lips, no teeth
b	b	ば	BIT
p	p	ぱ	PIT	Unaspirated
m	m	ま	MICE
j	y	や	YOUR	Semivowel counterpart of <い>
ɾ	r	ら	LADDER	Flapped <t, d> sound in American English
w	w	わ	WORE	Semivowel counterpart of <う>
β	v	ヴ	VILE	Only found in loanwords; produced with the lips, no teeth

Extra Phones

Dialectial / Stylistic Japanese Allophones

IPA	Romaji	かな	English Appoximation	Notes
ŋ, m	ng, m	ン・ン2	RHYTHM	Syllabic nasal variants
ŋ	ng	ガ	SING	Only found in some accents and loanwords
ʑ	zh	ジィ	MEASURE	Antiquated pronunciation of <じ>; tongue slightly further back
dz	dz	づ	DADS	Antiquated pronunciation of <づ>
l	l	ラ	LIP	English <l>; <ら> can be stylized this way
r	rr	ら2	PERRO	Trilled <r>; <ら> can be stylized this way

Non-Native Phonemes (for English Words)

IPA	Romaji	かな	English Word
θ	th	サ	THING
ð	dh	ザ	THIS
f	ff	フ	FILE
ɹ	wr	ラ2	RIP
v	vv	ヴゥ	VILE