Re: [lojban] Cultural fu'ivla: summary and list of the ISO generated ones

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:20 AM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why does "san" (Sanskrit) become "bansu'anu" rather than less arbitrary
> "bansa'ana"?

The rule is uniform for all ISO-codes:

s -> su
a -> 'a
n -> nu

If you are going to choose the vowel that goes with each consonant by
some other method on a case by case basis, the rule becomes more
arbitrary, not less. And you have to decide what to do with:

h -> xe
q -> ke
w -> ve
y -> je

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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