Re: [lojban] Consonant Clusters?

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
>
> For the start of a fu'ivla, I accept any cluster such that all pairs are
> initially permissible, including arbitrarily long sequences of "st". xorxes
> has a list of three letter sequences. I don't remember them all, but I
> know "jgl" is one (jglandi=walnut).

It's easy: they are all the same three consonant sequences that you
accept, except those that contain tc, ts, dj, dz.

They all happen to fall in the pattern:

   [s, c, z, j] [p, b, t, d, k, g, f, v, x, m, n] [l, r]

one letter from each group, as long as all the adjacent pairs are
allowed initially. Ïn fact "x" and "n" cannot take part in any three
consonant initial cluster. they are included in the pattern just for
completeness, so that the two letter clusters (except for the four
affricates) are also covered.

> I accept cmevla like "mkparks", where all consonant pairs are valid but not
> initially valid, but I don't think I've figured out how long they can get.
> I'm not sure what xorxes accepts.

At this point, basically what CLL says, anything at all without
impermissible medials. But I avoid names that are not formed out of
normal syllables, so I distinguish two kind of cmevla.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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