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[lojban-beginners] Up-to-date definition of Lojban



While preparing the third and fourth modules for Parallel, I found out (thanks to xorxes!) that the following sources now and then contradict each other:


1) Lojban For Beginners (LFB)

2) The Complete Lojban Language (CLL)

3) Definitions from cmavo.txt and gismu.txt

4) Definitions from BPFK sections.


I would like to know, what priority do these have, what overrides what, and are there other items that also have legal effect on the language?


I think that this information is crucial for the beginners. Why is it not published on the very first pages of Lojban tiki?

Otherwise, Lojban beginners may begin with LFB (as I have) and then suddenly realize that many things taught there are out-of-date or moot.

For example, the very beginning of the LBF, describing Lojban naming system ({la} <names>) doesn't say a word about prohibited consonant clusters (including double consonants and unvoiced+voiced consonants like k+v).


Yanis Batura