Re: [lojban] syllabification rules

[Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>]

On Sunday 02 May 2004 08:39, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
> In a message dated 2004-05-02 5:21:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time, lojbab 
writes:
> > I believe we specified rules back in the original morphology paper (which
> > predates Lojban, being a modified version of a paper about TLI Loglan),
>
> notebook 3 "the present state of the loglan language" pp. 23-24:
> "1.15  The Pair-from-the-Left Rule:  The default rule for grouping a
> written string of vowels into pairs is to start pairing them from the left
> and to restart the pairing process at any marked pause or syllable-break
> encountered. Once this is done we have to examine the pairs so made to see
> whether they are obligatory monosyllables, obligatory disyllables, or
> optional disyllables." then he gives the example [aiuiaoea] and resolves it
> into syllables as (igh-wee-ow-EIGH-aa).
> if there aren't any lojban rules, this could be a starting point, rather
> than start from scratch.

This is the same rule as in Lojban, except that [ao] is not a diphthong in 
Lojban, so it is pronounced [ai,ui,a,o,E,a]. Syllabicating consonants is more 
complicated because there are syllabic consonants and non-syllabic 
consonants, as well as pairs of consonants that can't appear at the beginning 
of a word. It is possible to have clusters longer than 2 with no initial 
pairs in the middle of a word, for instance {gejrxakpte} (don't ask me what 
the botanical name is, I just made it up); syllabicating such words requires 
that a syllable end or begin with a non-initial cluster.

phma
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