[lojban-beginners] Re: cmevla-final apostrophe

[Nathaniel Krause <nathanielkrause@yahoo.com>]

Vid Sintef <picos.picos@gmail.com> wrote:
>  What is the problem of using the apostrophe, which is effectively a
> consonant, instead of the other consonant letters, at the end of a
> cmevla?
>
> mu'o mi'e vid

' only occurs directly between vowels. A cmevla must always end in a consonant followed by a mandatory pause, which means that ' at the end of a cmevla would never have a vowel directly after it (to say nothing of the fact that most words begin with consonants). In other positions, ' is not considered distinct from other sounds.

[h] is a consonant sound (of the barest sort), but ' is not really treated as a consonant in Lojban. When you count the letters in, say, "ko'a", for practical purposes, there are only three: k o a. You might think of "o'a" as simply a sequence of vowels with a brief sound placed
 between them to make them pronounceable.

mu'o mi'e .sen.

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