Re: [lojban] lujvo deconstruction

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Friday 29 October 2010 17:37:26 Luke Bergen wrote:
> Wait, what are syllabic consonants?

Syllabic consonants are consonants that can be nuclei of syllables. They don't 
have to be. There are four in Lojban: "r", "n", "l", and "m". Examples: 
din,kr,ni,te; cl,sn; ko,lm,ba.

> So, if I'm trying to parse out a lujvo into its component rafsi, should I
> not worry when I see "m" or "l"?  There's no way that they could be
> anything but part of a rafsi?

If it is indeed a lujvo, yes. If it's a fu'ivla, the "l" could be the 
hyphen-letter.

> Further, what is this about hyphen-letters only being allowed after the
> first rafsi?  I can understand why the rafsi before an r/n-hyphen would
> need to be CVV or CV'V, but why can't r/n-hyphen come after the second or
> third rafsi?

The r-hyphen is there to prevent the part before it from falling off as a 
cmavo. The first and second rafsi together cannot fall off, since they have 
at least two consonants and a cmavo has at most one.

Pierre
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