[lojban-beginners] Re: double letters

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 7/16/07, Marjorie Scherf <mls1@rice.edu> wrote:
> When is i or u used as an onset without being proceded by . or ' or
> consonant?

In my proposal, ' cannot precede semiconsonant i/u, so for example
a hypothetical fu'ivla {bro'ia} would not be permitted. ' can only separate
two nuclei.

({.} can precede semiconsonant i/u, but realized as a pause
rather than as a glottal stop, so I consider it different from the cases
of .a, .e, .i, .o., .u, .ai, .au, .ei, .oi, .y. This is not a very
important point
but it seems to me that it is harder to pronounce a glottal stop in front of
a semiconsonant i/u than in front of a vowel.)

i/u would be onsets for example in {praia}, {praua}. The reading as
{prai,a}, {prau,a} is precluded because it involves two adjacent nuclei.
(In practice it is not relevant whether one actually pronounces it
as {pra,ia} or as {prai,a}, it's the same word and both are valid ways
of pronouncing it, just as you can pronounce {xe,kri} or {xek,ri} and
it makes no difference. It only matters in order to tell what's a valid
combination and what isn't.)

> This might be more consistant (and more correct) if you add .i
> and .u as onsets with the other Ci and Cu, and then omit the simple i and u
> unless there are examples.

That's a possibility. It depends on whether we want to allow fu'ivla such as
{smacrkobaiu} for example, which is in jbovlaste.

mu'o mi'e xorxes