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Re: [bpfk] Question on {z} vs. {dz} and {ts}

I agree. Let's not be the BPFK that just keeps incrementally removing phonemes from Lojban! pe'i this is why we have the buffer vowel, to assist with difficult consonant clusters.

- durkavore

On Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 2:49 PM, John Cowan wrote:

Gleki Arxokuna scripsit:

Today I was reminded of one "flaw" in phonology namely, the presense of [z]
in Lojban.

If we go down that road there is no end to it. English has no /x/,
Arabic has no /b/, Chinese not only lacks /z/ but also /h/ and the
sounds written "e" and "o" are more like Lojban "y" and "uy".
Spanish has no /y/ nor /c/. Hindi is missing /h/, as is Russian.
Finally all that would be left is p~b, t~d, g~k, and a, i, u.

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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
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