Re: [lojban] Re: Wheels in my Head

[Brandon Wirick <brandon@yrick.com>]

This is great! I had no idea such work existed. My task will be
difficult, however, to sensibly encode these syllables into sixteen
bits.

> With my morphology, the total number of syllables is 47602 (if my count
> is correct, counting stressed and unstressed as distinct) so 65536 is
> more than enough, but they don't pattern the way you have them. There
> are 64 consonantal syllables (a consonant followed by l, m, n or r) and
> the rest are syllabic ones.
> 
> The syllabic ones can be divided in three parts: an onset, a nucleus
> and a coda. The nuclei and the codas are the simplest:
> 
> 19 possible nuclei: a, e, i, o, u, ai, au, ei, oi, á, é, í, ó, ú, ái,
> áu, éi, ói, y.
> (Notice that "y" is never stressed, and the nucleus can't be empty.)
> 
> 18 possible codas: -, b, c, d, f, g, j, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, x, z
> (The 17 consonants and nothing.)
> 
> There are 121 possible onsets, which can be divided in four classes:
> 
> 36 semi-consonantal: i, bi, ci, di, fi, gi, ji, ki, li, mi, ni, pi,
> ri, si, ti, vi, xi, zi
> u, bu, cu, du, fu, gu, ju, ku, lu, mu, nu, pu, ru, su, tu, vu, xu zu
> 
> 1 (the apostrophe): '
> 
> 4 affricates: tc, ts, dj, dz
> 
> The 98 listed here:
> <http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Morphology%3A%20consonants>
> (This list includes the 4 affricates, but they really don't fit the
> same pattern. The glottal stop is included.)
> 
> So in all we have:
> 
>  (98 + 4 + 1 + 36) * 19 * 18 + 64 = 47602
> 
> mu'o mi'e xorxes
> 
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