Repetition of words

[Jorge_Stolfi]

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First, 100 of the mora in Japanese are allowed as syllable onsets, and these can easily be extended by the addition of a long vowel. So きゅ becomes きゅう, に becomes にい, etc. This alone brings us up to 200 possible syllables. Next, each of these 200 syllables can further be used to create another syllable by the addition of the mora ん.

OK, so he did include the ん in the previous syllable. (The Japanese are used to think of it as a separate syllable, not just because of the writing system but also for metric purposes in songs. The latter can stretch the んs like European songs will stretch vowels.)  

Then with consonant doubling we would get 800 potential syllables.

All the best, --stolfi