[lojban-beginners] Re: More phonology: voiced/unvoiced and fricative/fricative

[Nathaniel Krause <nathanielkrause@yahoo.com>]

m.kornig@sondal.net wrote:

Selon Jorge Llamb�as :

> On 6/24/07, m.kornig@sondal.net wrote:
> >
> > For instance why are words like {c}, {f}, {pst}, {m}
> > {kj}, {pc} or {gr} fobidden in Lojban?
>
> {kj} is forbidden because it is a unvoiced-voiced pair. The others
> are not forbidden, they are all valid cmevla.

In my understanding all these words are not {cmevla} because
the period at the end is missing.

Yes, if you look at it like that, those words are illegal because every Lojban word must end in a vowel or a period ... but the equivalent words plus periods are apparently valid. However, before Xorxes mentioned it, I had never been aware that Lojban allows vocalic consonants
 other than {r}, {l}, and {n}. I wonder if extreme examples such as {ptkts} (a Nuxálk word mentioned in Wikipedia) would be accepted as avalid cmevla.

mi'e .sen.

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