Katakana (片仮名、カタカナ, Japanese pronunciation: [katakaꜜna]) is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).
The Western Finnmark dialects distinguish four different qualities of opening diphthongs: /eæ/ as in leat "to be" /ie/ as in giella "language" /oa/ as in boahtit "to come" /uo/ as in vuodjat "to swim" In terms of quantity, Northern Sami shows a three-way contrast between long, short and finally stressed diphthongs. The last are distinguished ...