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You're kind of right, I tried to keep it succinct so I left out some detail, ao is not always an ii sound and changes dialect to dialect, in some dialects, it is the IPA ɯ sound, which is an unrounded u, because of this it should theoretically be a seperate vowel, but it also has to follow the rules of slender and broad in spelling, and in other dialects it isn't a unique sound. And I also agree with you about the unpronounced i, currently tbere's a spelling rule: caol le caol, leathann le leathann, meaning if there's an a, o or u ("broad" vowels) on one side of a consonant, the other side must either start with another broad vowel, or no vowel. Same goes with i and e ("slender" vowels) So if you need to say banir, you have to spell it so that the vowels around n in this case are the same broad/slender, which would turn it into bainir. I personally think this is retarded and they should simply make it that the consonant takes the slender/broadness of the vowel to its right first, and if there isnt a vowel to its right, then to its left. So banir would still be banir, creaimeacaigh (fake word for example) would become creameacaigh. This would only make it slightly better. Sorry for writing a lsrge block of text lol.
The Hs are a grammatical feature and were historically denoted as a dot above the consonant instead, which i prefer. Finally if a more extreme change were to be made to fix the silent vowels i would simply adopt the latvian alphabet. they have the same concept of slender and broad and diacritics to help with it. But this would make the language look totally different.
I actually have some examples of what I think would be a good orthography that maintains the grammatical features of the language from a while back:
comhghairdeas becomes
coṁġar̗d̗as
adhmad becomes
aḋmad
bhuachaill
ḃuaċal̗
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