Korean has a very well-organized alphabet. To change an a sound to a ya sound, and o to yo (and so on), you just add one extra small line to the vowel, as shown below:
| This vowel | sounds like: | With one extra line |
it sounds like: |
|---|---|---|---|
| ㅏ | a in father | ㅑ | ya in yacht |
| ㅗ | o in home | ㅛ | yo in yolk |
| ㅜ | long u in sue | ㅠ | English word you, and is Romanized as yu |
| And one new vowel with its y-counterpart: | |||
| ㅓ |
aw in lawn, and is Romanized as eo |
ㅕ |
yaw in yawn, and is Romanized as yeo |
This wraps up the simple vowels except for two...
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