Katakana word

ルーmania “Romania” in Japanese

rūmania

Character by character

  1. ru
  2. stretches the sound before it
  3. ma
  4. ni
  5. a

ルーマニア is made of 4 katakana sounds and 1 long-vowel mark. It reads rūmania.

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