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I'm curious as to what the percentage of native Japanese words that contain
digraphs, or to put it another way, the average number of digraphs (or
individual kana) in a Japanese word would be. I'm a big math nerd, so as I'm
learning Japanese this popped into my head.
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words hiragana kana kana-usage statistics
What fraction of Japanese words contain digraphs?
From a 68,000 word dictionary, I counted 22,000 words whose readings include
one, or more, of 「っ, ゃ, ゅ, ょ」. Unfortunately, I triple-counted unusual words
like 出張(しゅっちょう). 「ょ」was in 11,000 of the words while「ゃ」was in just 2,200. I
ignored all katakana.
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