syllabic nasal; moraic nasal
Linguistic term for the Japanese moraic nasal phoneme, written in kana as ん or ン. It occupies one mora and can appear only in syllable-final position.
The Japanese 'ん' is called a syllabic nasal.
The syllabic nasal forms one mora by itself.
nasal sound change; hatsuonbin
From 撥 (はつ, 'pluck; release') + 音 (おん, 'sound'), a term coined in Japanese linguistics to describe the 'released' nasal sound.