[lojban-beginners] Re: consonant doubling?

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 6/19/07, Vid Sintef <picos.picos@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's why I've come to think the phonology of Lojban is relatively simple.

I agree it is simpler than that of some other languages. It is also more
complex than that of some other languages. If phonologic simplicity
had been a strong design goal, the phonology could have been made
much simpler. Obviously it was not designed to be complex for complexity's
sake either, it just turns out to be more complex than it could have been.

>  In what aspect can the fricatives and
> consonant clusters in Lojban be said to be abundant?

In that they are more numerous than what occur in other languages.
(For example Spanish has fewer fricatives, Japanese has almost no
consonant clusters.)

> In other words, Esperanto is linguistically less open and more
> ideology-/culture-specific.  Its grammar is essentially
> particular/non-optional over e.g. masculine/feminine/epicene,
> singular/plural, active/passive, etc.

This has shifted away from phonology to other aspects. I certainly agree
that Esperanto is more European than Lojban when it comes to grammar
and vocabulary. But phonology-wise, Esperanto and Lojban are pretty much
the same (I would call it a central European type of phonology).

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