[lojban-beginners] Lojban sounds and Wikipedia article about those sounds

[Daeldir <daeldir@gmail.com>]

While translating the Lojban Wave Lesson Zero, about lojban letters pronunciation, in french, I used some Wikipedia linguistic articles to describe the “x” and “r” in lojban.

Wikipedia has sound samples for every lojbanic sound, I think, as we can see on those few examples:

L: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveolar_lateral_approximant
O: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-mid_back_rounded_vowel
R: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveolar_trill
X: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_velar_fricative

I was thinking it would be nice to cover all the lojban sounds in the lesson zero (we actually don't specify the sounds that don't change from english), and to link those Wikipedia articles on each letter.

However, one might argue that these articles are too specific to be put in a learning material, and that, as the lojban letters accept many pronunciations, linking to one sound would be too restrictive.

So, I ask here if you think such a work would be interesting. I can put up a list of the lojban sounds and their Wikipedia articles – there may even be diphtongs, I'm not sure. Also, as I am not a linguist, nor a veteran lojbanist, I can make mistakes. So, if you tell me that it is a good idea, I would make that list, and post it here for review, before modifying the lesson. 

This works may be of benefit for translations of the lessons: these articles exist in a french version, for example, but also in many other languages.

mu'o mi'e la .daeldir.

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