From grey.havens@earthling.net Thu May 18 13:12:12 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21953 invoked from network); 18 May 2000 20:12:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 18 May 2000 20:12:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO postfix2.free.fr) (212.27.32.74) by mta1 with SMTP; 18 May 2000 20:12:10 -0000 Received: from tam.n (marseille2-1-60-12.dial.proxad.net [212.27.60.12]) by postfix2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E9F5740D4 for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 22:12:08 +0200 (MEST) Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 22:12:24 +0200 (CEST) X-Sender: elrond@tam.n To: Lojban List Subject: Phonetics Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Elrond Hi, due to a project of mine, I have started working on the lojban phonetics system more thoroughly. After the first read on consonant clusters, I just *could not* figure out why only "m" can follow "j" and "z", and not "n", while both "m" and "n" can follow "c" and "s" (when speaking about permissible initial consonant pairs, that is). A clear and self-understanding picture with comments on the problem can be found at http://grey.havens.free.fr/lojban/initial_consonant_pairs.html I would really appreciate a detailed explanation on this. (is there any archives on the morphological history of lojban ?) Thanks raph