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7 identifiers linking mora across the web's reference databases
13 statements · 15% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
7 identifiers linking mora across the web's reference databases
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In linguistics, a mora is the smallest unit of timing, equal to or shorter than a syllable, which theoretically or perceptually exists in some spoken languages in which phonetic length matters significantly. For example, in the Japanese language, the name of the city Ōsaka (おおさか) consists of three syllables (O-sa-ka) but four morae, since the first syllable, Ō, is pronounced with a long vowel. Thus, a short vowel contains one mora and is called monomoraic, while a long vowel contains two and is called bimoraic. Extra-long syllables with three morae (trimoraic) are relatively rare. Such metrics based on syllables are also referred to as syllable weight. In Japanese, certain consonants also stand on their own as individual morae and thus are monomoraic.