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[lojban] Re: Lojban Alphabet Starter B
Very nice. Thanks.
--- Jorge Llamb�as <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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