Alcune osservazioni sull’evoluzione dell’uso dei segni diacritici nell’ortografia del giapponese: dakuten, handakuten e fudakuten.

Modern Japanese spelling conventions include the use of diacritical marks called dakuten and handakuten used to mark voiced consonants and the presence of the bilabial voiceless occlusive /p/ respectively In this paper I will describe the historical process that led to the formation of this diacritical mark system as it is used today, summarising the evolution and stabilisation of Japanese orthography.