[lojban] Re: Chinese, English and Spanish etymology of Lojban (was: Re: gismu etymology)

[mls1@rice.edu]

Quoting mublin <mublin@dealloc.org>:

> In the meantime, the reconstructed Chinese, English, and Spanish
> source words are available at the following address:
>
> https://www.dealloc.org/~mublin/
>
> --
> mu'o mi'e mublin.
>



Looking at the part of the page about the other orthography for Alice in
Wonderland reminded me of a question I have about diphthongs. How did the terms
"rising" and "falling" come about? All the falling diphthongs *end* with high
vowels, and all the rising diphthongs listed *begin* with a high vowel. This
seems backwards to me, which probably means there is some other very good
reasoning which I am not seeing at the moment. I am very curious to know what
it is, though.

mu'omi'e skaryzgik.


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