[lojban-beginners] Re: lojban vs. esperanto: ease of learning vocab

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 07:58:39AM -0500, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
> > but why would lojban vocabulary be
> > easier for chinese to learn than esperanto?  
> 
> Because Esperanto assumes that you can pronounce most European
> languages.

Pronunciationwise, there can't be that much difference between
the two. The phoneme inventory of Lojban is almost identical 
to the one of Esperanto. The only differences I can think of are 
that Lojban treats "ts", "tc" and "dj" as two phonemes and 
Esperanto as one, and that Esperanto doesn't have Lojban's "y".  
If Esperanto assumes that you can pronounce most European
languages, then so does Lojban.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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