スタジオ

Japanese

Etymology

Internationalism. Perhaps from English studio, whose English vowel /uː/ is transcribed into Japanese as a instead of *u or *ū, perhaps due to phonetic confusion with study. Compare Italian studio (“room for study”), English study (“room for reading and writing”).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) スタジオ [sùtájíó] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
  • IPA(key): [sɨ̥ᵝta̠ʑio̞]

Noun

スタジオ • (sutajio) 

  1. a studio

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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