[lojban] Re: loqban alphabet for Lojban has been puplished

[Andrew <summerfallsaway@gmail.com>]

Huh. I don't see "loqban" anywhere on lojban.org. Is this writing system your invention, Tobias?

I understand that Lojban's Latin-based orthography seems a little weird at first. But to me, using q for the IPA /ʒ/ seems stranger than things like using the apostrophe for <h>. The apostrophe was an odd choice, but the light-weight character does fit use of {y'y} as a "semiconsonant" serving only as a vowel separator. Also, people who don't like Lojban's usage of {.} and {'} can already just omit the dot and replace the apostrophe with an h without causing any confusion. And I'm not sure spelling "Johan" as {.johan} instead of {.io'an.} or {iohan} is a significant gain. Rather than trying to "fix" Lojban's current official usage of the Latin alphabet, I'd be more interested in officially adopting either a new script or one of the original scripts listed on the Alternate Orthographies page... With the currently used scripts from natural languages like Latin and Cyrillic remaining acceptable transliterations.

~Andrew / cemjig


On Friday, September 16, 2016 at 1:10:35 PM UTC-7, Tobias Conradi wrote:

The loqban writing system for Lojban has been published. 

It uses 26 characters of ISO 10646 Basic Latin. 

Diphthongs use <w> and <j> (aj, aw, ej, oj, ja, je, ji, jo, ju, wa, we, wi, wo, wu, jy, wy). 

<h> is used in place of <'> for IPA /h/. 

<q> is used for IPA /ʒ/, <c> for IPA /ʃ/ and <y> for IPA /ə/. 

This writing system increases the agreement with IPA. It allows for a Lojban pronunciation of 1 000 000+ taxon names used in scientific naming of biota, without changing their spelling. 

It can also be used to spell names like .johan zebastjan bax., .pjotr iljitc tcajkovski. and .dqenghis xan.

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