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Oh, I did kick this alphabet rework around in my head quite a bit. Having standard diphthongs does solve the problem of too-similar pairs like bien and byen. It also released y and w up for other uses. I'm not totally crazy about y being /Z/, but given the 26 letter alphabet, I think it's the optimum solution. It also repairs the asymmetry of C, X, and J by adding the Y. Previously I was having a problem with pairs like dia and dya, and temporarily solved it by using diya. But then it hit me that, given that ia is automatically a diphthong, diia solves the problem nicely, and doesn't look much stranger than diya did. One other advantage to this is that by gaining another cuaba, Y, we automatically have a bigger set of CV's, not to mention longer words, available. Reactions?