Some terms found “by chance” when studying bilingual Japanese dictionaries, which may be useful to speak/write about languages. I say the pronouncements in kana, but also in the maji, so that they can be accessed even without knowing the hiragana and katakana. To do so, I used the Hepburn transcript. The glossary presented in this article comes mainly from the following dictionaries: KURAKATA et al. (2003)”