X-Digest-Num: 39 Message-ID: <44114.39.138.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 23:54:20 -0500 From: Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group Subject: Croatian as a brivla X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 138 Content-Length: 1368 Lines: 33 Regarding a word for Croatia(n), John Cowan noted a valid Type 3 fu'ivla. I think Jorge suggested a possible gismu, which would be very unofficial under the gismu baseline. the other option would be either a type 4 fu'ivla or a subset of the latter, a rafsi fu'ivla as described in Chapter 4 section 16 (p80) of the Book. xrvatska itself would seem to be a valid type 4 fu'ivla - I don't see any obvious way that the beginning consonat cluster could break up. Standard type 4 fu'ivla cannot be compounded into proper lujvo, though one can achieve the effect using zei A rafsi fu'ivla, which could be used in compounds by replacing the final vowel with a schwa under the experimental proposal described in the reference section, must be of the form CCVVCV. I would suggest something like xra'ata, but the real choice should be made by our Croatian Lojbanists as to what would sound good to their countrymen (or at least relatively unoffensive %^). lojbab ---- lojbab ***NOTE NEW ADDRESS*** lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: see Lojban WWW Server: href=" http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/ " Order _The Complete Lojban Language_ - see our Web pages or ask me.