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[lojban-beginners] Re: More phonology: voiced/unvoiced and fricative/fricative

On 6/24/07, Nathaniel Krause <nathanielkrause@yahoo.com> wrote:

m.kornig@sondal.net wrote:

In my understanding all these words are not {cmevla} because
the period at the end is missing.
Yes, if you look at it like that, those words are illegal because every
Lojban word must end in a vowel or a period ...


Every word must end in a vowel or a pause. The period is an optional
way to remind the reader that a pause is required, but it is not necessary
to write it down because every word that ends in a consonant must be
followed by a pause, so there is no ambiguity if you omit the period.


but the equivalent words
plus periods are apparently valid. However, before Xorxes mentioned it, I
had never been aware that Lojban allows vocalic consonants other than {r},
{l}, and {n}.


And {m}.


I wonder if extreme examples such as {ptkts} (a Nuxálk word
mentioned in Wikipedia) would be accepted as avalid cmevla.


There's no definite official rule for that yet, but I would say it won't
be allowed. A cluster that consist of a single consonant plus a valid
initial however (such as "pst") is valid.

mu'o mi'e xorxes