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		timonoko 83 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scream cipher Most of these are short/long vowel markings, except last one which is (probably) implosion. And rest are frontal/back and wide/narrow A. But Swedish "Å" is just stupidity "O", because they started pronouncing "O" as "U" and "U" as "Y". -- Can you pronounce these screams?

pezezin 81 days ago [–]

The last one is the ogonek, it usually indicates nasalization: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogonek

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