[lojban-beginners] Pronunciation: a major problem in spreading lojban

[Leonardo Castro <leolucas1980@gmail.com>]

Hi, folks!

I wonder why the patterns of basic lojban words were not chosen to be
"CVVCV" and "CVCVV" instead of "CCVCV" and "CVCCV" (I would also add
"CVNCV" and "CVVV" to the list).

Anglophones are relatively well accustomed to consonant clusters, but
most people in the world will have problems when pronouncing words
like "cmavo" and "zdani". Using the "schwa" to prevent consonantal
encounters is also unnatural for most people: Brazilians and
Nahuatles, for instance, would use /i/ for this purpose and Japaneses
use /u/. Besides, a Brazilian would but a /i/ _before_ some words like
"zdani" (/izdani/), not between the consonants.

In my opinion, an auxlang should be no more complicated than Toki Pona:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona

But Toki Pona is not a "loglan" and don't have a word breaking
detection system. I wish someone created a simplified version of
lojban with a (C)V(N) structure for its syllables.

Cordially,

Leo