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Re: [lojban] criticism of lojban needed




2014-09-02 23:55 GMT+04:00 <wixness15@gmail.com>:
I do not like the source languages even though this would cause Lojban to be slightly more unlearnable; two-thirds of the source languages are from the Indo-European language family, and this underrepresents other languages, such as the Turkic and Uralic languages, for instance, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Finnish, Estonian and Hungarianz

They are not underrepresented.
Note that gismu are based not just on 6 arbitrary languages but on how this or that phoneme or their combination is spread all over the world.

The languages you mention would just get such a small weight  that wouldn't affect the form of gismu.

I tested an algorithm with 4 - 12 major languages and found that first 4 languages is not enough, 12 languages is too many (although of course you can use them all to score new gismu to prove or disprove my claim).

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