>>>>>It's the same in English- the indefinite article a becomes an before a word starting with a vowel.
>>>>>
>>>>> For u it depends how it is pronounced - I think
>>>>>
>>>>>A U-Turn
>>>>>An unrelated matter
>>>>
>>>>On a related note, same goes for words beginning with an aitch - "an honorable exception".
>>>>
>>>>Btw, a question for the anglophone majority here: is there a word in English which begins with a "u" and has it pronounced as u? Not as uh as in under, not as yoo as in universe, but as u as in butcher, lubricate?
>>>
>>>I thought 'U' was pronounced as in 'u' of Universe ?
>>
>>In in one. I was trying to think of an example and didn't think of that.
>
>Ubiquitous
>Ullyses
>Ukele
>Useless
>University
>Unicorn
>Uniform
>Unique
>In fact lots of 'Uni's - Latin one
>Seems to me it's mainly words starting with 'un' which imply a negative that are not pronounced 'U'
>e.g Unimaginative,Unlikely etc....

ALL of these are pronounced with a y... yunivers, yuniform, yunik. Upanishad is pronounced without. Roma locuta, causa finita.