“Y-Vowels”

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:
a in father ya in yacht
o in home yo in yolk
long u in sue English word you, and is
Romanized as yu
And one new vowel with its y-counterpart:
aw in lawn, and is
Romanized as eo
yaw in yawn, and is
Romanized as yeo

This wraps up the simple vowels except for two...

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