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[lojban-beginners] Re: consonant clusters (was: Just got my speakers back online...)



I want to hear someone pronounce "cidjrspageti" 

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 01:59 am, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> On 9/22/05, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/22/05, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Indeed. For example {catra} means "kills", while
> > > {catcra} means "map-front".
> >
> > I thought Lojban didn't allow three-consonant clusters?
>
> Three-consonant clusters are common in lujvo. In fu'ivla,
> you can have up to four consonant clusters (at least in
> one proposed morphology, this matter is still not settled.)
> If you count vocalic consonants you can get monsters
> like {cidjrspageti} too.
>
> mu'o mi'e xorxes

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