It is important to note the difference between vowel letters and vowel sounds.

This leads to several groups of vowel letters denoting identical sounds today.

Here also, the table shows long vowel letters only in isolated form for clarity.

In modern Akan, seven vowel letters are used, with two of them being ambiguous.

Because they are also nouns, they all start with vowel letters.

The creation of the vowel letters is essentially the same in the two accounts.

Five vowel letters are used to write seven vowels.

The seven basic vowel letters were not adopted from an existing script.

The second rule is made to work by adding the tone marks for vowel letters.

There are no diphthongs; each vowel letter is pronounced separately.