Subject: Re: [lojban] Again: transcription of Chinese cmene

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:48:59 EDT

In a message dated 00-06-05 04:08:22 EDT, iad writes:

<< For example, how about lojbanising Chinese _-n_
as {m}, so that _-ng_ can unambiguously be {n}? >>

Nice. Are there other consonantal contrasts we are overlooking? But is there 
no final /m/ in Mandarin? I suppose, /dim sum/, being food, is Cantonese. 
More to the point, can we get a good vowel spread with the limited lb set?