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Re: [lojban] Maximum allowed consonant cluster length in fu'ivla?



Richard Curnow wrote:

In chapter 3 of the Ref. Grammar, there is a statement

   In Lojban, doubled consonants are excluded altogether, and clusters
   are limited to two or three members, except in Lojbanized names.

"Members" = "consonants", but excludes syllabic consonants.  3.4 and
3.6 should be corrected to this effect.

   cidjrspageti

which contain clusters of 4 consonants,

Actually 5 consonants.  But the syllabication is "cidj,r,spageti",
so there are never more than two non-syllabic consonants in a row.

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