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Jorge Llamb?as scripsit:

> So for example {ba}, {ba'a}, {bra}, {bba} are all morphemes,
> the last one can be pronounced /byba/. Morphemes that start
> with a single consonant are cmavo and the rest are gismu.

Such are the Gua\spi rules, exactly.

> To distinguish tanru from lujvo all we would need is a separator
> cmavo. With the above morphology, we could have {bragrku}
> for {brage'u} and {brake grku} for {barda gerku}, for example.

More or less what Gua\spi does also for its irregular (= not by rule)
tanru/lujvo.

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