Re: [txeqli] Alphabet - ceqli messages

If "dia" would be pronounced differently from "dya" (/dia/ vs. /dja/), should the same distinction hold for "dai" vs. "day?" And, are all four of these single syllables? My feeling is "dai" and "day" should be different, and that it would be more symmetrical to go with "dai". Thus: <ai> = /ai/, not <ay> = /aj/ (and not <ai> = /aj/, either). There shouldn't be both <iu> and <yu>, nor both <ui> and <wi>. This might be a good argument for eliminating the weaks, <w> and <y>. That way, at least, there are no additional rules to memorize.

Ray:>> In response to the above confusion between phonological rules for diphthongs and phonological rules for semi-vowels, I believe the rules below apply to all the languages I know, regardless of whether the orthography uses "i/u" or "y/w" or even a wheb the Hebrew and Arabic semi-vowel letters are used to represent or indicate the presence of vowels and diphthongs:

The vowel sounds [i/I] (and their rounded-lipped counterparts) and [u/U] (and their spread-lipped counterparts) following any vowel sound except vowel sounds [i/I] (and their rounded-lipped counterparts) and [u/U] (and their spread-lipped counterparts) usually form single-syllable diphthongs with the preceding vowel. For example, [ai, ei, oi, au, eu] are all diphthongs in normal speech pronunciation of all natural languages even though they may be considered as two syllables when pronounced very slowly in Japanese for example - this is because of the othograpy, the "slow" pronunciation is actually SPELLING OUT the words using the ORTHOGRAPHIC SYLLABLE. But the vowel sounds [i/I] (and their rounded-lipped counterparts) and [u/U] (and their spread-lipped counterparts) preceding any other vowel become semi-vowels forming single syllables with the following vowel or diphthong, for example [wai, yau, ayu, ewa].