The Japanese digraphs and Small Kana/ Sutegana

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Have you ever heard about this before?
Well, you know what I mean right?
The column~ Y is used to be やゆよ

The formula of Japanese  Digraphs
= ( Consonant + "i" sound + column - Y/small wa: ゎ)

Small "wa"that is used to write the morae /kwa/ and /gwa/ (くゎ, ぐゎ), which are obsolete in contemporary standard Japanese but still exist in the Ryukyuan languages

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Small "wa"
that is used to write the morae /kwa/ and /gwa/ (くゎ, ぐゎ), which are obsolete in contemporary standard Japanese but still exist in the Ryukyuan languages.

How to pronounce it?
For example:
きゃ:kya
ぎゃ:gya
しゃ:sha
じゃ:jya
ちゃ:cha
にゃ:nya
ひゃ:hya
びゃ:bya
ぴゃ:pya
みゃ:mya
りゃ:rya

🚨🚨BEWARE  WHILE  PRONOUNCE  IT
You CANNOT AND WILL NEVER TRY TO DO THIS
if you pronounce the Japanese digraphs like this,
Chiya
Biya
Riya
Jiya
Shiya
And other same as tht
!!! You will change the meaning of a word!!
So never ever try to do it !

For example=
竜 「りゅう」   :RYUu = Dragon
理由「りゆう」:RIyuu = reason

今日「きょう」:KYOu= today
きよう              :KIYOu = handy/skilled

Now u get it right?

Besides, Japanese digraphs must add a SMALL  kana or what they called it as SUTEGANA
such as

Besides, Japanese digraphs must add a SMALL  kana or what they called it as SUTEGANAsuch as

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Plus,
ふぁ:Fa (it's not pronounced as FUA
ふぃ:Fi
ふぅ:fuu/huu
ふぇ:fe
ふぉ:fo/ho

Beware~
You maybe will confuse just like me 😜
So, you better be careful and need more practice to differentiate it~☆

U must see the difference between all the Sutegana's

や   
ゆ   
よ   
あ   
い   
う   
え   
お   
わ    ゎ (small wa) just like what I wrote just now

つ    (small tsu)
The small tsu is used to represent a doubled or "geminate" consonant, known as a sokuon (促音) in Japanese. The sokuon is usually represented in romanized Japanese by a doubled consonant, such as the double t in hatto (ハット), "hat".

For ur information, small ぁぃぅぇぉ
Are functioned to make the sounds more longer
For example if you want to shout out loud u must type aaaaaaa or if you want to say Ooo (sign tht u are understand in Japanese)
あぁー!!
えぇー?!
おぉー

OKAY(*'▽'*)♪
That's all for today lesson!!~~~
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