Proposed changes to the article so as to avoid reversion struggles 1 That possible vowel inventories be exanded to 10 distinct vowels after Vance 2 That discussion of diphthongs be expanded after Vance 3 That discussion of J r be exanded to include the possibility of 1 two r phonemes and 2 more allophones than the ones described in the article Source would be Trubetskoi book and Labrune article I would point out that Vance is about the only English language book we have that is devoted to the topic of Japanese phonology and it is a standard source on the topic even it is limited in its approach by traditional phonemic description and doesn t make use of alternatives such as natural phonology and articulatory phonology Speak now if you can t live with these 133 7 7 240