system. Central Algonquian Cree and Ojibwe were the languages for which syllabics were designed, and they are the closest to the original pattern described by James Evans. The dialects differ slightly in their consonants, but where they share a sound, they generally use the same letter for it. Where they do not, a new letter was created, often by modifying another. In several Cree dialects ê has merged with the î, and these use only three of the four vowel orientations. Eastern and western syllabics When syllabics spread to Ojibwe and to those Cree dialects east of the Manitoba–Ontario border, a few changes occurred. For one, the diacritic used to mark non-final w moved from its position after the syllable to before it; thus western Cree is equivalent to the eastern Cree – both are pronounced mwa. Secondly, the special final forms of the consonants were replaced with superscript variants of the corresponding a series in Moose Cree and Moose Cree influenced areas, so that is ak and sap (graphically "aka" and "sapa"), rather than and ; among some of the Ojibwe communities superscript variants of the corresponding i series are found, especially in handwritten documents. Cree dialects of the western provinces preserve the Pitman-derived finals of the original script, though final y has become the more salient , to avoid confusion with the various dot diacritics. Additional consonant series are more pervasive in the east. {| class=wikitable style="text-align:center" |+ Finals |- ! style="width:4em;" | ! style="width:4em;" | West ! style="width:4em;" | West (Fort Severn) ! style="width:4em;" | West (Island Lake) ! style="width:4em;" | West (Sandy Lake) ! style="width:4em;" | East (A-finals) ! style="width:4em;" | East (I-finals) |- ! ' | ᐦ | ᐦ | | | ᐦ, ᐞ | ᐞ |- ! p | ᑊ | ᑊ | ᑊ | ᐦ | ᑉ | ᣔ |- ! t | ᐟ | ᐟ | ᐟ | ᐟ | ᑦ | ᣕ |- ! k | ᐠ | ᐠ | ᐠ | ᐩ, ᕽ | ᒃ | ᣖ |- ! c | ᐨ | ᐨ | ᐨ | ᐨ | ᒡ | ᣗ |- ! m | ᒼ | ᒼ | ᒼ | ᒼ | ᒻ | ᣘ |- ! n | ᐣ | ᐣ | ᐣ | ᐣ | ᓐ | ᣙ |- ! s | ᐢ | ᐢ | ᐢ | ᐢ | ᔅ | ᣚ |- ! š