Learn Shavian/Vowels/1

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The first two letters you will learn are called if and eat. They look like this

Name Letter
if 𐑦
eat 𐑰

You can imagine that someone wanted to make the if letter longer, so they broke it in the middle and tried to pull it apart to lengthen it. That is how we got the eat letter.

Vocabulary[edit | edit source]

Latin Shavian
if 𐑦f
eat 𐑰t
this th𐑦s
these th𐑰se
in 𐑦n
we w𐑰

Reading Practice[edit | edit source]

Now w𐑰 can use th𐑰se letters 𐑦n some text like th𐑦s.

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