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> Permissible vowel pairs:
>
> ae
> ai
> ao
> au
> aj
> aw
>
> ea
> ei
> eo
> eu
> ej
>
> ia
> ie
> io
> iu
> iy
>
> oa
> oe
> oi
> ou
> oj
>
> ua
> ue
> ui
> uo
> uy
>
> ja
> je
> ji
> jo
> ju
> jy
>
> wa
> we
> wi
> wo
> wu
> wy
> Everything without a w or j is two syllables, and can be pronounced
with a
> glottal stop if necessary. No confusion with words like a, e,
etc., because
> there won't be any. All Ceqli words must begin with a C.
>
> Are there any pairs here that should be prohibited for reason of
> unpronouncability, or because of likely confusion with other pairs,
e. g. ia
> and iy? Any reactions to this at all?
I don't see any good reason for taking away any
vowel combination. If you pronounce the vowels and
the glides properly, there should be no risk of
confusion nor "unpronouncability"; e.g. aa would be
pronounced like English "ah-ah", "ij" would pronounce
almost as a long English "ee" ("i" alone shouldn't be
as long as that and "ii" would have a glottal stop in
between as in the hawaiian pronounciation of Hawai'i).
You can consider the option of turning the schwa into
a glide, so that "iy" would be just one syllable and
pronounced as the English vowel in "fear". "ey" would
sound like in "bear", "oy" almost like Romanian diphthong
"oa", "uy" like in "tour" and "ay" almost as a long "a".
For "yi", "ye", etc. just reverse the sound of the
preceding. The difference between "ay" and "ya" would
be like that between "ij" and "ji" and "uw" and "wu",
i.e. in practice they would sound like a long vowel with
a stress respectively in its first and in its second mora.
Best regards,
Javier