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I think that I would favor an acute accent or a circumflex or a macron over a grave accent to indicate a long vowel or diphthong. I use to grave accent to indicate a checked vowel. Your bal'a is bale' or balei or baley in Spanglish. You are a little inconsistent on this since you evidently keep nationl nasn. My arguement is that a writing system simply triggers an association so it works best when there is a minimum of miscues.