Syllabification

[Sam G]

It seems to me that:

- <a>, <e>, and <o> are vowels
- <i> is a modifier of the previous vowel
- <ee> and <eee> are also probably single vowels, analogous to <ai> and <aii>
- <y> is either vowel or semivowel (also <l>, maybe)
- all other characters are consonants

So, it's pretty simple to determine how many syllables a given word has - just count the number of vowels or groups of vowels separated by consonants. So <chol> is one syllable, <chedy> is two, <qokeedy> is three, etc.

This leaves a few things ambiguous - it's not clear whether <cheody> should be two syllables or three, for instance, but I suspect it's only two since <eo> seems to substitute for single <o> or <e>.

It's also not clear exactly where syllable boundaries occur, for instance if <okchy> should be o-kchy, ok-chy, or okch-y.