[lojban] Re: mimiklama

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> OK, what about 'mimibilga'?  Obviously 'mimibIlga' is handleable, but
> without the stress indicated?  It's the lack of stress indicators that
> I'm really asking about.

The space at the end of a brivla indicates the stress: it is always
on the vowel before the last one.

> I guess what I'm asking is "in absence of stress indicators, does
> tosmabru still happen?".  What about "miklamami"?

You can't have absence of stress indicators. {mi klamami} is 
{mi klamAmi}, where klamami is a fu'ivla. 

> > Currently, what follows doesn't have to be a cluster as long as a
> > cluster follows "soon" after - e.g. {mijimpe} is {mi jimpe} even
> > though the cluster "mp" isn't immediately after "mi". 
> 
> Even without the stress?

The way to mark stress is to leave a space after a brivla.

You must always be able to tell where the stress falls, otherwise
you can't be sure you are parsing correctly. Stress is an essential
part of the Lojban morphology.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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