# Japanese non-lexical vocables

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**Category:** Japanese Language\
**Created:** [April 18, 2020, 10:34pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/japanese-non-lexical-vocables/43188 "2020-04-18T22:34:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![oddbury](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/oddbury/32/255170_2.png) [@oddbury](https://community.wanikani.com/u/oddbury)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 10:34pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/japanese-non-lexical-vocables/43188/1 "2020-04-18T22:34:14Z")

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What are the common non-lexical vocables in Japanese singing? Things like “la la” and “na na” in English. I’ve tried Googling this but it’s basically impossible to phrase the question usefully. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Belthazar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/belthazar/32/4469_2.png) [@Belthazar](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Belthazar)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 10:41pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/japanese-non-lexical-vocables/43188/2 "2020-04-18T22:41:12Z")

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ララ and ナナ, pretty much. 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/6/2/a/62a8b0f4c59ff2c5b6651ffcf43531480b3e5297.png) [@system](https://community.wanikani.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 10:41pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/japanese-non-lexical-vocables/43188/3 "2021-04-18T22:41:47Z")

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