[lojban] Re: Lojban Alphabet Starter B

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 7/6/06, John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> So as a tentative list we have
>
> A: low vowel
> B: vd stop consonant
> C: vl back sibilant consonant
> D: vd dental stop consonant
> E: mid front vowel
> F: vl consonant
> G: vd back stop consonant
> h: consonant
> I: high front vowel
> J: vd back sibilant consonant
> K: vl back stop consonant
> L: dental hyphen consonant
> M: nasal consonant
> N: nasal hyphen consonant
> O: mid back vowel
> P: vl stop consonant
> R: hyphen consonant
> S: vl sibilant consonant
> T: vl dental stop consonant
> U: high back vowel
> V: vd consonant
> X: back consonant
> Y: (central) vowel
> Z: vd sibilant consonant

That's nice. I would make the following minor adjustments:

- Include the vl feature in X, even though there is no contrasting vd,
because it is relevant for the phonotactics.

- Make
Y: hyphen
A: vowel

That means we don't need to mark the "low" feature at all, and it makes Y
distinct which is good because Y really is a special phoneme. In particular,
it does not break consonant clusters for the purpose of brivlahood,
so in some sense it does not quite count as a vowel.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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