The names of the consonant letters in Eastern Nagari are typically just the consonant's main pronunciation plus the inherent vowel "" "ô". Since the inherent vowel is not written, most letters' names look identical to the letter itself (e.g. the name of the letter "" is itself "ghô", not "gh"). Some letters that have lost their distinctive pronunciation in Modern Assamese and Bengali are having the same pronunciation with other letters. For example, since the consonant phoneme /n/ is represented by the consonants , , or (depending on the spelling of the particular word). These letters aren't called simply "nô". Instead, they are called "dental nô", "cerebral nô" and "niô". Similarly, the phoneme in Bengali and in Assamese can be written as "palatal shô/xhô" , "cerebral shô/xhô" , or "dental sô/xô" , depending on the word.