Spoken Japanese, words ending with わ used as the topic


So consider a noun in Japanese such as 毛皮 that ends in a わ mora. If you were
to construct a sentence with such a word as the topic it would have some
structure like 毛皮は which when spoken out loud, would have the わ sounds
repeated twice in a row. Grammatically, I assume the topic marker は should be
included in such as sentence and in formal written language would probably be
included, but when speaking, would native speakers drop the topic marking
particle in this case in order to sound more natural?




I'm not sure why you are worrying about this, but there is nothing wrong with
saying _wa_ twice in succession. It's not unnatural at all. When the topic
ends with わ, we simply say 毛皮は _kegawa-wa_ , 川は _kawa-wa_ , チワワは _chiwawa-wa_
, and so on. Nothing special will happen.

The topic marker [は is commonly omitted in speech
anyway](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/3151/5010), but that's a
different phenomenon that happens regardless of the last sound of the topic.

