A274177
Smallest number whose shortest possible name when spelled in Japanese in 'On' reading has exactly n mora.
Original entry on oeis.org
2, 0, 11, 21, 31
Offset: 1
2 (ni) has 1 mora.
0 (ze-ro, re-i) has 2 mora.
11 (ju-i-chi) has 3 mora.
21 (ni-ju-i-chi) has 4 mora.
31 (sa-n-ju-i-chi) has 5 mora.
There were errors in the mora-count for numbers greater than 99, as explained in the comments in
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N. J. A. Sloane, Jul 01 2016
A278387
Number of mora in Japanese name of n in Old Japanese.
Original entry on oeis.org
2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 7, 7, 6, 6, 7
Offset: 1
hito, huta, mi, yo, itu, mu, nana, ya, kokono, too, too amari hito, too amari huta, too amari mi, too amari yo, too amari ito (cf. Downing, 1984).
- Yi Ki-Mun, Kugosa kaesol [Introduction to the history of Korean], Seoul: Minjung Sogwan, (1972).
- I. Shinmura, Kokugo oyobi chosengo no sushi ni tsuite [Regarding numerals in Japanese and Korean], Geibun, 7.2, 7.4 (1916).
- P. Downing, Japanese Numeral Classifiers: A Syntactic, Semantic, and Functional Profile, Dissertations, Department of Linguistics, University of California, 1984.
- Korean Sentry Forum, Comparing the development of Korean and Japanese languages.
- R. A. Miller, The Altaic Numerals and Japanese, The Journal-Newsletter of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Oct. 15, 1969), 14-29.
- Wikipedia, Classification of the Japonic languages - Koguryoic hypothesis.
- Wikipedia, Japanese numerals - Old Japanese.
- Wikipedia, Old Japanese.
- Wikipedia, Goguryeo language.
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