æ : light a, and used to be a letter called "æsh" α : hard a, sounds similar to ɔ ɛ : the eh sound ə : the schwa, the uh sound in unstressed syllables i : the ee sound ɪ : i as in... "in" ɔ : the o sound in palm (sometimes merged with α) u : the oo sound ʊ : the oo in book