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Subject: [lojban] Re: Language Names, please.
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>> cy - Welsh - Cymraeg - kimro
>kymraig. I don't think Welsh should have a gismu, and I'm not sure what to
do
>about the 'y' when making a brivla, but there should be a brivla so that we
>can speak about a Welsh broda.

Personally, I vote for a as it is the closest lojban vowel.
Yes, the phoneme y has a realization identical to u (which varies between
/i/ and /y/ by dialect), but in non-final syllables (and some monosyllables)
it is a distinct sound.
For mathematical reasons, two seperate two-way mergers are preferable to one
three-way merger. They can be easily shown to maintain more minimal pairs.
I therefore advocate 'kamro'.