Katakana word

オーōsutoraria “Australia” in Japanese

ōsutoraria

Character by character

  1. o
  2. stretches the sound before it
  3. su
  4. to
  5. ra
  6. ri
  7. a

オーストラリア is made of 6 katakana sounds and 1 long-vowel mark. It reads ōsutoraria.

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