Re: [lojban] Re: vowel counts

["Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org>]

>Organization: R+S Reengineering und Softwaredesign GmbH
>From: "Daniel Gudlat" <d.gudlat@rpluss.com>
>Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 16:44:28 +0200
>
>
>coi rodo
>.i la jildicnen cu cusku di'e
>>
>> 'a' and 'i' win by a fair margin over the others... i wonder why that
>> is.
>
>Several possible reasons come to mind:
>
>c) Dipthongs: ai, ei, oi, and au are the lojban standard diphthongs and
>strongly favor i and a.

This last one isn't relevant, since the count was only among gismu, which
have no diphthongs.

Unless they were chosen so as to favor CVV (diphthongal) rafsi.

~mark