Registered Diphthongs

In NewEng, all pure digraphs are vowels.

Assimilative digraphs in consonant space remain, because these are mostly (if not entirely) a physical phenomenon arising from the movement of the mouth.

English Diphthongs

Diphthongs of English are:

• /ɪj/ "me"

• /ɛj/ "may"

• /ɑj/ "my"

• /oj/ "boy"

• /aw/ "cow"

• /əw/ "go"

• /ɔw/ "cold"

• /uw/ "zoo"

Reducing unnecessary complexity

In the vowel respelling phase, several common digraphs are replaced with more accurate digraphs.

However, some of them have unnecessary complexity.

AŬ → AU for /aʊ/~/aw/

Instead of writing ⟨aŭ⟩ to represent /aʊ/, NewEng uses ⟨au⟩.

⟨ou⟩ has long been used to represent the /aʊ/ diφþoŋ, as in "cow": round, count, house.

This is, frankly, a ridiculous dīgraφ for suч a diφþoŋ.

The ⟨ou⟩ dīgraφ is broadly replaced by the ligature vowel ȣ, taken directly from ancient Greek and Latin usage, but its sound is not for the /aʊ/ diφþoŋ.

To meet the phonetic standard of NewEng, /aʊ/ is represented by ⟨aŭ⟩.

However, the breve diacritic on the u, ⟨ŭ⟩, is also unnecessary, because /aʌ/ does not exist in English phonology. Therefore, ⟨aŭ⟩ can be written more simply and quickly as ⟨au⟩. This saves time in handwriting, and saves characters in typing.

Diphthongs

ee ay eye oi ow o oh you

/ɪj/ "me"

Defined	Example	IPA	Old spelling	Position
ē	mē	/mɪj/	me
ï	maʞ̌ïn	/mə'ʃɪjn/	machine
ēy	kēy	/kɪj/	key	Coda
ēà	lēàd	/lɪjd/	lead

/ɛj/ "may"

Defined	Example	IPA	Old spelling	Position
ā	fāç	/ɛj/	face	Mid-word
ei	rein	/ɹɛjn/	rein	Mid-word
ey	hey	/hɛj/	hey	Coda
ăi	măil	/mɛjɫ/	mail	Mid-word
ăy	dăy	/dɛj/	day	Coda

/ɑj/ "my"

Defined	Example	IPA	Old spelling	Position
ī	nīç	/nɑjs/	nice	Mid-word and coda
īȝ	nīȝt	/nɑjt/	night	Mid-word and coda
âi	??
ây	ây	/ɑj/	eye	Coda
ui	guid/g̊īd		guide	Mid-word
uy	buy	/bɑj/	buy	Coda
ȳ	mȳ	/mɑj/	my	Mid-word and coda

/oj/ "boy"

Defined	Example	IPA	Old spelling	Position
oi	чoiç	/ʧojs/	choice	Mid-word
oy	joy	/ʤoj/	joy	Coda

/aw/ "cow"

Defined	Example	IPA	Old spelling	Position
au (aŭ)	caunt	/aʊ/~/aw/	count	Mid-word
aw	haw	/aʊ/~/aw/	how	Coda

/əw/ "go"

Defined	Example	IPA	Old spelling	Position
ō
ōw	flōw	/əʊ/~/əʊ/	flow	Coda
ȣ̄	ðȣȝ	/ðəw/	though

/ɔw/ "cold"

Jury is very much STILL OUT on this one, with regards to how exactly to transcribe this in NewEng. &#xNAN;All instances of /ɔw/ appear to be pre-Dark-L, thus it is a phenomenological result of position assimilation, rather than a real phoneme. &#xNAN;However, should it be rendered as /əw/ or /ɔw/? Writing it as ⟨ō⟩, which represents /ə/, is arguably wrong. &#xNAN;I have no idea what to do with homophones like roll and role.

Defined	Accurate	IPA	Example	Old spelling	Position
oàl			coàl	coal
ol			roll	roll
ole			role	role
owl	owl		bowl	bowl
ȣ̄l	owl		sȣ̄l	soul

/uw/ "zoo"

Defined	Example	IPA	Old spelling	Position
ū	ūz	/juwz/	use	Anywhere
ꝏ	fꝏd	/fuwd/	food	Mid-word and Coda
ö	ʃö	/ʃuw/	shoe
ŏ	tŏ	/tuw/	to	Anywhere (Can reduce to /ʊ/)
ü	süper	/suwpə	super	Unsure
ȣ̈	yȣ̈	/juw/	you
w̄	nw̄	/njuw/	new

Single-Vowel diphthongs (Magic E)

Defined	Phonetic	IPA	Example	Old spelling	Position
ā	ei	/ɛj/
ǣ	ee	/eː/
ē	ii	/ɪj/
ī	âi	/ɑj/
ō	əŭ	/əw/
œ̄	œœ	/yː/
ū	iw	/juw/
ȣ̄	ow	/əw/
w̄	iw	/juw/
ꝏ̄	/	/
ȳ	âi	/ɑj/

There is no Single Vowel diphthong for /oj/ "boy" or /aw/ "cow".