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Eastern Alska (EA) has 27 letters in its alphabet, including <i>aa</i>, which stands for the phone [a:], and ''á'', which stands for [eɪ]. (The letter <i>a</i> in EA is pronounced [au]) | Eastern Alska (EA) has 27 letters in its alphabet, including <i>aa</i>, which stands for the phone [a:], and ''á'', which stands for [eɪ]. (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> | 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>y</i> stand for [au] and [aj] respectively. (These sounds are represented by diphthongs in other dialects) | ||
The | The ''apostrof'' (<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. | The same voiced-unvoiced consonant switch occurs in Eastern Alska just as it does in Northern Alska. | ||