Is it ok to read こみち as komiti?


I think it should probably be pronounced as komichi or komich.




**[ち](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_%28kana%29)** is often
[transcribed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Japanese) as
**ti** natively in Japan and by scholars, because it is very nice to get a
_simple_ progression like **ta ti tu te to** for **たちつてと** , which can help
when explaining various linguistic changes.

What happens in Japanese is that the vowels / **i** / and / **u** / [affect
the previous
sound](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_phonology#Palatalization_and_affrication),
hence the sometime need to to more accurately describe this pronunciation.
Usually this gets done as **chi** in English.

(Some non-IPA transcriptions of **ち** in languages other than English: chi,
çi, či, ĉi, csi, ti.)

[As for IPA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet),
it is possible to transcribe on several _levels_ :

  * Very broadly: / **ti** /
  * Broadly: / **tˢi** /
  * Narrowly: [ **tɕi** ]

As far as I am aware [ **tɕi** ] is the standard IPA transcription of **ち** in
modern, standard Japanese.




Since you didn't use quotation marks, your question is a bit ambiguous.

こみち can be _transcribed_ as "komiti" using [Nihon-
shiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihon-shiki_romanization)/[Kunrei-
shiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunrei-shiki_romanization) romanization
(see this [relevant paragraph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunrei-
shiki_romanization#Usage)).

But it is _pronounced_ as "komichi" or
[/komit͡ʃi/](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet_chart_for_English_dialects)
(although I'm no IPA expert).

