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On 5/30/05, Rex May <rmay@hidden.email> wrote: > 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. The advantage of having distinct letters for the semivowels is that the learner doesn't have to memorize the set of diphthongs up front. With your new system, the learner has to memorize the set of 11 vowel letter pairs that are to be pronounced as diphthongs before he can pronounce any word with two or more vowel letters in sequence. You also need to be explicit about how to parse sequences of three or more vowels. For instance, caia could be pronounced /'tSaj.a/ or /'tSa.ja/, as far as I can tell (forgive me if I overlooked the part where you said how to parse these). You said at some point that ceqli does not use capital letters. I think you should fix the web pages to reinforce that by not using capital letters in ceqli words (except maybe to indicate stress - but I would prefer to use a preceding ' apostrophe for that). In the alphabet page your capitalization is fairly inconsistent. Sometimes you capitalize the first letter, sometimes the stressed syllable, sometimes the entire word. "HEQOG" is probably a typo for "heqoq". -- Jim Henry http://www.poboxo.com/~jimhenry/review/log.htm