[lojban-beginners] Re: Questions on the sounds chosen for Lojban

[Zifre <kmicklas@gmail.com>]

I think that the sounds in Lojban were at least partly chosen based on
what sounds are common in world languages (especially the ones that
the gismu are derived from). "X" is a pretty common sound, wile "th"
is not (and is notoriously hard for some non-native speaker to
pronounce in English, e.g. the stereotypical "ze" or "de" instead of
"the").

As for the vowels, I am extremely happy that Lojban uses the vowels it
does! The "a" in "bat" is one of the ugliest sounds I can think of.
The "i" in "bit" sounds nice to me, but I think a lot of people have a
hard time telling it apart from Lojban "i". (My favorite vowel sound
in any language is the Lojban "e" sound or the "e" in "bet".

In general, I think Lojban is a very easy language to pronounce, at
least for native English speakers, and probably other languages as
well. Really the only words I have a hard time with are the ones with
weird consonant clusters, like "zdani" when there is no vowel before
it. (I remember "mlatu" and "xrula" being hard at one point, but
the're pretty easy now.)

mu'o mi'e zif

On 21 ene, 01:41, Greendogo <pcm1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering what criteria was chosen for the sounds used in
> Lojban.
>
> For instance, why was the German sound used for "x" used, but the
> sounds [th]ink, [th]e, b[a]t, and b[i]t were not?
>
> Is there any way to create the consonant "th" sounds using a method
> similar to how the [j] in jump is created by writing [dj] instead (or
> how [ch] is written [tc])?

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