The names of the consonant letters in Assamese are typically just the consonant's main pronunciation plus the inherent vowel "ô". Since the inherent vowel is assumed and not written, most letters' names look identical to the letter itself (e.g. the name of the letter is itself "ghô"). Some letters that have lost their distinctive pronunciation in Modern Assamese are called by a more elaborate name. For example, since the consonant phoneme /n/ can be written , , or (depending on the spelling of the particular word), these letters are not simply called "no"; instead, they are called "dontiya no" ("dental n"), "murdhoinno no" ("retroflex n"), and "nio". Similarly, the phoneme can be written as "taloibbo xo" ("palatal x"), "murdhoinno xo" ("retroflex x"), or "dontia xo" ("dental x"), the phoneme can be written using "prothom sô" ("first s") or "ditio so" ("second s"), and the phoneme can be written using "borgia zo" ("row z" = "the z included in the five rows of stop consonants") or "ontostho zo" ("z situated between" = "the z that comes between the five rows of stop consonants and the row of sibilants"), depending on the standard spelling of the particular word.