Talk:Ɛ̃fini

There was also an Efini (infini) Familia (protege/323 in N. America)

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The name
The current article title (Ẽfini) is still not actually correct. The name is the IPA representation [ɛ͂nfini] of the (French) pronunciation of 'Infini', the French for "Infinite'. The first character is a (lower-case) curly-e plus tilde to indicate nasalization. (Requires Unicode combining characters.) I added some notes about this a long time ago, which were progressively deleted: I imagine many people find it difficult to believe that a Japanese product name would be the IPA for a foreign word, but it is not surprising to anyone familiar with Japanese naming customs. Here are some references:


 * The decimal codes for the curly-e-tilde: &amp;#603;&amp;#834; (makes ɛ͂)
 * The IPA can be seen clearly for example on this model kit box: http://www.modelcars.com/tamiya-mazda-efini-rx7-kit.html
 * Mazda name (Japanese Wikipedia) -- writes plain curly-e, presumably because of the difficulty of finding the Unicode values
 * French 'infini' (Japanese Wikipedia)
 * Guide to French nasals in IPA: http://french.about.com/library/pronunciation/bl-ipa-nvowels.htm
 * Examples of IPA in Japanese product names on John Wells' blog: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/blog0710b.htm (Friday 26 October 2007)

I suggest the page should be moved, but I am not sure about obscure characters in article names (it should also be a lowercase letter as is all IPA). Imaginatorium (talk) 19:32, 15 October 2013 (UTC) (formatted Imaginatorium (talk) 13:28, 21 March 2014 (UTC))


 * Hi, I have taken up your suggested changes. OSX (talk • contributions) 13:14, 21 March 2014 (UTC)