From lojbab@xxxxxx.xxxx Thu Jan 7 20:54:20 1999
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Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 23:54:20 -0500
From: Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group <lojbab@xxxxxx.xxxx
Subject: Croatian as a brivla

Regarding a word for Croatia(n), John Cowan noted a valid Type 3 fu'ivla.
I think Jorge suggested a possible gismu, which would be very unofficial
under the gismu baseline. the other option would be either a type 4
fu'ivla or a subset of the latter, a rafsi fu'ivla as described in Chapter
4 section 16 (p80) of the Book.

xrvatska itself would seem to be a valid type 4 fu'ivla - I don't see any
obvious way that the beginning consonat cluster could break up. 

Standard type 4 fu'ivla cannot be compounded into proper lujvo, though one
can achieve the effect using zei

A rafsi fu'ivla, which could be used in compounds by replacing the final
vowel with a schwa under the experimental proposal described in the
reference section, must be of the form CCVVCV. I would suggest something
like xra'ata, but the real choice should be made by our Croatian Lojbanists
as to what would sound good to their countrymen
(or at least relatively unoffensive %^).

lojbab

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