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! '''''a'''''
! '''''a'''''
|   /a/
|   /a/
| Slightly farther back than a typical /a/, very occasionally pronounced as /ɑ/.
| Slightly farther back than a typical /a/, very occasionally pronounced as full /ɑ/.
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! '''''ā'''''
! '''''ā'''''
|   /aː/
|   /aː/
| Identical articulation to /a/, but held longer.
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! rowspan=2| '''''æ'''''
! rowspan=2| '''''æ'''''
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! '''''ae'''''
! '''''ae'''''
|   /aɨ/
|   /aɨ/
| Not to be confused with /æ/, which comes from Old English. '''''Ae''''' comes directly from the Old Welsh.
| Not to be confused with /æ/, which comes from Old English. The '''''ae''''' marking was borrowed from Old Welsh.
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! '''''āe'''''
! '''''āe'''''
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! '''''æg'''''
! '''''æg'''''
| rowspan=3|   /æj/
| rowspan=3|   /æj/   /æʲ/
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| Differentiation between soft and hard palatalization is extremely inconsistent. Usually, however, the soft palatalization was used only word-finally, and the hard
palatalization was used everywhere else.
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! '''''aġ'''''
! '''''aġ'''''
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| This grapheme was the most commonly used, favored because of its marginal simplicity, but other graphemes are used occasionally.
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! '''''æġ'''''
! '''''æġ'''''
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| Very rarely used, mainly in older texts.
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! '''''b'''''
! '''''b'''''