[lojban-beginners] la ciste lerfu be la ca.

[Geoffrey Stewart <geoffstewart56@gmail.com>]

coi rodo

 

Recently I discovered something called the Shavian alphabet (or la ciste lerfu be la ca., in my quick Lojban translation). It looks like something that could be easily adapted for Lojban use, as it has already been adapted for Esperanto use. Here is the wikipedia entry on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet

 

And here is a font (two, in fact): http://www.demeyere.com/shavian/

 

Obviously the letters for

/tʃ/ (c),

/dʒ/ (J),

and

/ŋ/ (N) would not be used. /j/ (j) and /w/ (w) would likewise not be used, as lojban uses vowels for that. /h/ (h) I am reluctant to use because it's so large and the lojbanic <'> should be less intrusive, so possibly the apostrophe could just continue to be used. As for the vowels, A can be used for <a>,

e or E for <e>,

I for <i>, O for <o>, M for <u>, and a for <y>.

 

The main problem is that the mapping onto the keyboard doesn't seem to be very intuitive for some of the symbols, and will have you reaching for the shift key more often than should be necessary. Nevertheless, it works fine with writing, and is a logical alphabet to go with a logical language. Tell me what you think!

 

mu'o mi'e djefris.

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