VAR · 1954

Modified Hepburn System

var-jpn-Hrkt-Latn-hepburn-1954

Authority: var
Year: 1954
Source script: Japanese syllabaries (alias for Hiragana + Katakana) Hrkt · 412
Destination script: Latin Latn · 215
Language: Japanese

This is a modified version of Hepburn romanization, which was adopted by Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary (3rd edition) One crucial difference between Modified and Tranditional Hepburn is that the ん/ン sound is always transliterated as n, even before the letters b,m,p.

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かごっま

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