[lojban-beginners] Re: xelfanva

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>  "h" is y'ybu, not xy (although online jbofi'e doesn't like y'y in the
> begining of a cmevla.  can anyone tell me why??)

The apostrophe is only used to separate two vowels, so it is allowed
neither at the beginning nor at the end of a word, nor next to a
consonant. I'm not sure there is a why other than that's how it was
defined. (That's by the way why the corresponding lerfu is y'y and not
just 'y.)

mu'o mi'e xorxes