[lojban] Re: Lojban for Beginners lesson 12 answers

[John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net>]

--- "Aleksej R. Serdyukov"
<deletesoftware@yandex.ru> wrote:

> Exercise 2:
> 1. Moscow
> 
> (St. Petersburg [sanktË?pÉ?tÉ?rspurg],
> 
> I guess it is how it sounds in English? Why
> Moscow is more like in 
> Russian, then?
> At least in Moscow pronunciation, it will be:
> [Ë?sanktÌ?pʲetʲerË?burk]

English is (in Lojban transcription -- I can't
produce or read whatever these marks are) /seint
pitrsbrg/ more or less (this is almost surely not
a legitimate Lojban name).  The Lojban name
should be as close as possible to the native
name, so, I gather /maskfa/ (with some consonant
on the end) or is it more /moskfa/ (with the
lower "aw" /o/)(sorry about not allowing /kv/,
which many languages have)?  Is the native name
of the other place really Saint Petersburg or is
it Petrograd, which would introduce a whole other
set of issues?
And how widely variant are the dialects of the
two cities (we should follow the local one, I
suppose)?  
> 
> Moscow [mÉ?sË?kfa])
> 
> [mÉ?sË?kva]
> Sounds don't change in "кв"/"kv".
> 
> 
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