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05-21-2010, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by sakaeyellow View Post
I think, without any proof, that it has something to do with Japanese verb conjugation.

All Japanese verbs in dictionary form end with "u". So "u" is in the middle of aiueo.

It is just my guess.
It is arbitrary, just like English, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, etc..

vowel order is aiueo
consonant order is kstnhmyrwn'

Arbitrary.

The order used to be i, ro, ha, etc. This came from a poem: Iroha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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