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Re: [lojban] Some questions
la lojbab cusku di'e
>Speakers of 5-vowel languages were not consulted at the time...
Not directly, though JCB was purportedly fluent in Spanish having lived on
Ibeza for several years.
Yes, Loglan has a much more noticeable Spanish influence than
Lojban. But JCB was an English native speaker, so of course had
no trouble with a sixth vowel.
But we did consult linguists and polyglots (who
were skilled in several languages including Tommy W. who was trained in
Modern Hebrew), and the consensus was that the best sixth vowel after a
five vowel system would have to be the central one, which unstressed (as it
always is in Lojban) is a schwa.
Maybe it was the best sixth, but you should have stopped at 5.
co'o mi'e xorxes
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