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Eastern Alska (EA) has 26 letters in its alphabet, including <i>aa</i>, which stands for the phone [a:].  (The letter <i>a</i> in EA is pronounced [au])
There are several letters that do not  produce the sound one would expect.  Since EA does not have any sort of recognized diphthongs, the letters <i>a</i> and <i>i</i> stand for [au] and [aj] respectively.  (These sounds are represented by diphthongs in other dialects)
The apostrophe (<i>'</i>) is counted as a full letter in Eastern Alska, and is pronounced [ɛ].  This can be confusing to non-native speakers of EA because words that would normally have a short 'e' are instead spelled with an apostrophe.  This also happens in the definite/indefinite articles.
The same voiced-unvoiced consonant switch occurs in Eastern Alska just as it does in Northern Alska.
====Pronunciation Differences/Spelling Differences====
Here is a table with many confusing examples of the EA orthography:
{| {{Table/bluetable}} style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle"
!'''Spelling (SA)'''
!'''Pronunciation (SA)
!'''Spelling (EA)'''
!'''Pronunciation (EA)'''
!'''Meaning'''
|-
|Ja
|[ja]
|Ja
|[jau]
|yes
|-
|Nej
|[naj]
|Ni
|[naj]
|no
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|ett Vere
|[et vɛrɛ]
|å V'r
|[ɔ vɛɹ]
|to be
|}
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