The word "abugan" is spelled as follows: /ə-bu-gan/. The first sound, /ə/, is represented by the schwa symbol and is pronounced as a short, unstressed vowel sound. The following consonants, /b/ and /g/, are pronounced as a voiced bilabial stop and a voiced velar stop, respectively. The final sound, /an/, is pronounced as a short, unstressed vowel followed by the nasal consonant /n/. This word may be difficult to spell correctly without knowledge of its phonetic transcription.