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Semivowels bother me. I've flipped back and forth in Tceqli, allowing ai, ei, oi, ui to be diphthongs, because they look better to me than ay, ey, etc. OTOH, ya ye, etc. look better to me than do ia, ie. And, if I want to have minimal pairs like dya (dyah) and dia (DEE-ah). So, I guess my basic question is, how daft would it be to make the rule that ai,ei,oi,ui, plus au and eu, are diphthongs, but that vowel pairs beginning with i and u are NOT diphthongs? And if I did do that, should I abandon the dya dia possibility? It seems inelegant to have y and i (and w and u) making the same sound, even in different environments. If I'm going to let i and u become semivowels, it seems like the y and w shouldn't be part of the alphabet at all, at least with those values. As you can see, I'm trying to finally baseline the spelling, at least, so I can move on to greater things