[gothic-l] addendum to and

[Weidemyr Basti setiez@yahoo.com [gothic-l]]

"If <ai> and <au> did in fact represent [ai] and [au], then why would a scribe have transcribed these Latin names in this way?"
They are mostly Semitic names, and as someone mentioned earlier, it is hard for people who have spoken diphthongs since childhood to learn a language with mostly monophthongs. I suspect some may have pronounced Leyi (Λευι) as [lɛɪ̭'wə̭ɪ] or with some similar compromise, and that they would have caused the digraphs to remain. So the question I ask myself is: Why keep a digraph for something that is always pronounced as a single vowel?
Anyway, thanks Edmund! I needed some background to understand your previous post.(https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Gothic-L/conversations/messages/12259) 
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