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All three Vadists do employ IPA to represent the actual phonology of the textual material, but even here significant divergences often emerge. The IPA of Iyyaħmi reflects his more recent work on how the ''Širkattarnaft'' was used to represent Vadi phoħħnology and phonotactics, and for the most part Tashunka's IPA is mostly concordant with that of Iyyaħmi.  The traditionalist system Schumann  uses is the main source of discordant IPA renditions of the same text.  These divergences can impact other areas of reconstructing the Vadi language, as the IPA rendition in one system may yield separate words or morphemes that are lacking in the other system.  

These different orthographies are emblematic of the split in the Vadist community.  The existence of the Aħħur texts have only served to add confusion, as the spelling in some of the fragments of the textual material is consistent and regular, suggesting the Vadi phonemic inventory is even smaller than that of Minhast.  A compromise solution has been advanced by a minority of Vadists, that the Aħħur texts represent an even later form of Vadi increasingly influenced by the dominant Minhast language.  While this hypothesis is plausible and tentatively supported by even Iyyaħmi himself, the evidence for this alternative has thus far remained inconclusively, as there are other texts in the Aħħur collection that contain spelling anomalies of their own, albeit different from those of the Scriptum.  Alternative non-linguistic tests for this hypothesis have  been proposed, the most recent one being carbon dating of the Aħħur and Kalapái parchments.  Unfortunately, carbon dating analysis of the texts cannot provide support for that hypothesis as both corpora have been already contaminated by the number of hands that have handled the material.