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Fu'ivla diphthongs was: Official Statement- LLG Board approves new baseline policy
On Friday 29 November 2002 20:18, Robert LeChevalier wrote:
> At 01:41 PM 11/29/02 -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> >what about {cipnrxakuila}?
>
> I dunno? What about it? If someone has said it is invalid, what was their
> reason?
No one said it's invalid that I know of, but it contains a diphthong that
does not appear in lujvo.
According to chapter 3:
The first four diphthongs above (``ai'', ``ei'', ``oi'', and ``au'', the ones
with off-glides) are freely used in most types of Lojban words; the ten
following ones are used only as stand-alone words and in Lojbanized names and
borrowings; and the last two (``iy'' and ``uy'') are used only in Lojbanized
names.
Thus a fu'ivla can contain {ua} or {io} or {ui}. So {srutio} (a fu'ivla,
discarded in favor of {strutione} for "ostrich") is distinct from {sruti'o}
(a lujvo: "penumbra", maybe?), and {ckankua} (a fu'ivla: "skunk") is distinct
from {ckanku'a} (a valsrslinku'i).
As to the TLI alternate orthography, {i'o} in a fu'ivla is written as {i,o},
but in a lujvo {i'o} is written as {io}.
> I don't pretend to be more a master of fu'ivla than others. So far as I
> know, however, the rafsi fu'ivla like that one all work.
By work, do you mean that you can make words like {cipnrxakuilykanla}?
phma