Subject: Re: [lojban] Maximum allowed consonant cluster length in fu'ivla?

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:51:34 -0500

Richard Curnow wrote:

> In chapter 3 of the Ref. Grammar, there is a statement
> 
> In Lojban, doubled consonants are excluded altogether, and clusters
> are limited to two or three members, except in Lojbanized names.

"Members" = "consonants", but excludes syllabic consonants. 3.4 and
3.6 should be corrected to this effect.

> cidjrspageti
> 
> which contain clusters of 4 consonants,

Actually 5 consonants. But the syllabication is "cidj,r,spageti",
so there are never more than two non-syllabic consonants in a row.

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