Re: [bpfk] official cmavo form

[selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de>]

la .xorxes. cu cusku di'e
> The PEG morphology is not yet official. I would have been happy to
> disallow "consonant glide" as a valid onset altogether, but other people
> were opposed to that at the time. Some would have even allowed "CC
> glide" as a syllable onset, so allowing a single consonant was something
> of a compromise. I would be happy to go with the more strict "onset <-
> h / glide / initial" if that's the new consensus, although in that case
> there are probably several words in jbovlaste that would have to be revised.

My personal position is that I definitely would want to disallow any CiV 
where C is a sibilant (e.g. ?{sia}) or a dental (e.g. ?{tia}) [1], 
because they tend to degenerate into simpler forms over time (e.g. {ca} 
and {tca} respectively) and are hard to distiniguish for many people. I 
would ban them in any word, not just in cmavo.

Regarding forms like {kia} (which must be pronounced [kja]), they bother 
me slightly less, but I wouldn't miss them if they got removed.

So one could either ban just the ones that are likely to cause problems, 
or ban all for simplicity's sake.

I see no problems with {ie'o} as a cmavo form.

mi'e la selpa'i mu'o

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[1] The are some additional phonotactic constraints I would install, but 
the details seem irrelevant here.

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