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Hey Rich, While I've long admired the design principles at work in Ladekwa (and Katanda, Nasendi, etc.), I've always thought all iterations make really ugly-sounding tongue-twister words, and that the semivowels are at the heart of it. (Maybe I should've spoken up about it before now.) Maybe it's just me, but the SV combinations seem much more tongue-tripping in succession than the VS ones. (Though I'll admit I'm no linguist.) I'm with Stevo... how about ending syllables in m, n, l, r, and maybe even ng? It would open up a lot of new syllables without a proliferation of diphthongs.