Essanian: Difference between revisions

| '''a'''

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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'''

| Rare. Only commonly used as a vowel in the conjunction ''y'' and the homonymous adverbial pronoun.

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| '''o'''

| style="text-align:center;"|[o̞]

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| '''u'''

| style="text-align:center;"|[u]

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| ⟨i⟩ before a vowel

| style="text-align:center;"|[j]

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|⟨u⟩ before a vowel (but silent in ⟨qu⟩ and ⟨gu⟩ before an ⟨e⟩ or ⟨i⟩)

| style="text-align:center;"|[w]

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| ⟨ü⟩ before a vowel (only used in ⟨qü⟩ and ⟨gü⟩ before an ⟨e⟩ or ⟨i⟩)

| style="text-align:center;"|[w]

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| ⟨i⟩ after a vowel

| style="text-align:center;"|[j]

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| ⟨y⟩ after a vowel

| style="text-align:center;"|[j]

| Almost always word-final. ⟨-iy⟩ is pronounced [i].

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| ⟨u⟩ after a vowel

| style="text-align:center;"|[w]

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| ⟨w⟩ after a vowel

| style="text-align:center;"|[w]

| Almost always word-final. ⟨-uw⟩ is pronounced [w].

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