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Re: [lojban] name parsing

On Thursday 11 November 2010 09:29:13 Luke Bergen wrote:
> good lord.  It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that natlangs tend to
> like consonant clusters WAY more than lojban does.

This varies widely among languages. Initial consonant clusters are rare in 
Finnish (e.g. "krapu", apparently from some cognate of "crab", 
becomes "rapu"). Hausa syllables begin with at most one consonant, while the 
distantly related Central Atlas Tamazight has consonant clusters and buffer 
vowels.

Pierre
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