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From: Mark Barton <mbarton@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: Acquisition of phonemes thfough foreign influences
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In article <4481gf$f47@mars.earthlink.net> , bodhi@earthlink.net writes:
>Subject: Re: Acquisition of phonemes thfough foreign
>From: bodhi
>Date: 26 Sep 1995 05:02:07 GMT
>>In <446jut$31n@agate.berkeley.edu>, coby@euler.Berkeley.EDU (Coby (Jacob) >Lubliner) writes:
>
>>Japanese also a katakana character to represent <v> in words
>>taken from Sanskrit, Latin and Italian, but in words taken
>>from English the [v] sound is invariably replaced by [b].  I
>>am not sure about French words.
>
>Which katakan character is that?  Is it a single character, or a combination?

It's a katakana u with a nigori-ten on it to indicate voicing. It's 
commonly followed by a small katakana vowel sign. I remember that the 
composers names Vaughan Williams and Dvorak use it, but otherwise they're 
quite rare.

Cheers,

Mark B.
