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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 | |||
|- | |||
|ett Vere | |||
|[et vɛrɛ] | |||
|å V'r | |||
|[ɔ vɛɹ] | |||
|to be | |||
|} | |} | ||