Re: [lojban] Again: transcription of Chinese cmene

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 00-06-05 04:08:22 EDT, iad writes:

<< For example, how about lojbanising Chinese _-n_
 as {m}, so that _-ng_ can unambiguously be {n}? >>

Nice.  Are there other consonantal contrasts we are overlooking? But is there 
no final /m/ in Mandarin?  I suppose, /dim sum/, being food, is Cantonese. 
More to the point, can we get a good vowel spread with the limited lb set?

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