The small っ does technically repeat letters so it looks similar to んな, but it’s more of a breathy pause than just straight up repeating the consonant letter. For example when you read がっこう it’s almost like there’s a silent pause between “ga” and “kou”, which is why it’s closer to “gah-kou” and not “gak-kou”. Same for おんな – it’s not “o-nna” but “on-na”
Where did you pull おっな from? This doesn’t really work in Japanese phonotactics.
You don’t really see the geminate consonant behind nasals (m and n) or the flap (r).
small tsu doesn’t ever come before the n sound
The small っ represents a glottal stop and not a nasal.
The rule is that to double a nasal consonant (n or m) you don’t use a sokuon っbefore the syllable and instead write the nasal consonant ん
学校 – がっこう – gakkou (school)
女 – おんな – onna (woman)
冠 – かんむり – kammuri* (crown)
(*note that even though the sequence is pronounced as an extended /m/, it is generally transliterated as ‘nm’, so ‘kanmuri’ js generally what you would see written)
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The small っ does technically repeat letters so it looks similar to んな, but it’s more of a breathy pause than just straight up repeating the consonant letter. For example when you read がっこう it’s almost like there’s a silent pause between “ga” and “kou”, which is why it’s closer to “gah-kou” and not “gak-kou”. Same for おんな – it’s not “o-nna” but “on-na”
Where did you pull おっな from? This doesn’t really work in Japanese phonotactics.
You don’t really see the geminate consonant behind nasals (m and n) or the flap (r).
small tsu doesn’t ever come before the n sound
The small っ represents a glottal stop and not a nasal.
The rule is that to double a nasal consonant (n or m) you don’t use a sokuon っbefore the syllable and instead write the nasal consonant ん
学校 – がっこう – gakkou (school)
女 – おんな – onna (woman)
冠 – かんむり – kammuri* (crown)
(*note that even though the sequence is pronounced as an extended /m/, it is generally transliterated as ‘nm’, so ‘kanmuri’ js generally what you would see written)
っ is not used to indicate geminated sonorants