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| [<nowiki/>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_dental_fricative θ]] or
| [<nowiki/>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_dental_fricative θ]] or
[<nowiki/>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_fricative s]] (depending on the dialect)
[<nowiki/>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_fricative s]] (depending on the dialect)
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=====Vowels=====
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|+ Monopthong Vowels
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! Letter
! [[Help:IPA|IPA]]
! Examples !! Remarks
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| a
| style="text-align:center;"|[ä]
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| e
| style="text-align:center;"|[e̞]
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| i
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|[i]
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|y
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| o
| style="text-align:center;"|[o̞]
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| u
| style="text-align:center;"|[u]
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{| class="wikitable"
|+ Vowel letters behaving as semivowels <ref name="Semivowel">In Essian, the letters '''i''' and '''u''' can combine with other vowels to form falling and rising diphthongs.</ref>
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! colspan="2" |Letter
![[Help:IPA|IPA]] !! Examples !! Remarks
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| i
| {{angbr|i}} before a vowel
| style="text-align:center;"|[j]
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|u
| {{angbr|u}} before a vowel (but silent in {{angbr|qu}}, also {{angbr|gu}} before an {{angbr|e}} or {{angbr|i}})
| style="text-align:center;"|[w]
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