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Sunny uses a modified Roman alphabet to write Esan, which appears to be a commonly-accepted way of writing the language (Wikipedia). Sunny writes a line under vowels where the common writing system uses a dot below. My current guess at the orthography system is below:

Grapheme Phoneme
a a
an
b b
bh β
d d
e e
en
ɛ
ẹn ɛ̃
f f
g g
gb g͡b
gh ɣ
gw gʷ / ɣʷ
h h
i i
in
ɪ
ịn ɪ̃
j d͡ʒ
k k
kh x
kp k͡p
kw
l l
ll
m m
mh ɸ
n n
o o
on
ɔ
ọn ɔ̃
p p
nw
ny ɲ
r ɹ
rr ɹː
s s
sh ʃ
t t
u u
un
ʊ
ụn ʊ̃
v v
w w / ɣʷ
y j
z z