Why does hiragana have only や ゆ よ
Is there any reason for the y row in Hiragana (and Katakana) to consist only of や ゆ よ?
The same thing goes for わ and を.
Thank you!
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Now, the Y row would be やいゆえよ, and the WA row would be わいうえを, so the same characters are omitted. However, the old version of these rows had different characters.
Please take a look at these wikipedia pagese. I think the first one can explain a bit about your question, and you can see the old version in the second one.
in English
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gojūon
in Japanese
https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/五十音
I hope this was helpful.
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They used to have more in the w section, わ、ゐ、ゑ、を. "wu" never existed, as well as the ye and yi kana.
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