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On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 03:05:13AM +0200, Timo Paulssen wrote:
> On 09/26/2010 02:06 AM, Isaiah Gilliland wrote:
> > Was this a purposeful thing done when building the language? By the
> > way that's an awesome way to remember the order too :D
>=20
> Compare also:
>=20
> no 0
>=20
> pa 1
> re 2
> ci 3
> vo 4
> mu 5
> xa 6
> ze 7
> bi 8
> so 9
>=20
> vo'a, vo'e, vo'i, vo'o, vo'u (back-references to x1-x5)
>=20
> broda, brode, brodi, brodo, brodu (not strictly ordered)
> ko'a, ko'e, ko'i, ko'o, ko'u (also not strictly an order)
> fo'a, fo'e, fo'i, fo'o, fo'u (and no real order here either)
>=20
> i probably forgot some stuff
>=20
> but there's also
>=20
> vi, va, vu - near =97 far
> zi, za, zu - soon =97 far
> ze'i, ze'a, ze'u - for a short time =97 for a long time
> ve'i, ve'a, ve'u - small region =97 big region
> =85
>=20
> as you can see, it was a decision, and a good one in my opinion :)
> mu'o mi'e timos
>=20

There are at least other series which are exceptions to these:

ti, ta, tu

and:

di'u, de'u' da'u
di'e, de'e, da'e

which uses its own i/e/a convention.

-Alan
--=20
.i ko djuno fi le do sevzi

--=20
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