Subject: Re: [lojban] Transliterating Graeco-Latin

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 04:29:37 -0400

On Sunday 12 August 2001 08:19, Nick Nicholas wrote:
> Lojbanists, I draw your attention to two pages I've written on the Wiki on
> borrowing words from Graeco-Latin:
>
> http://nuzban.wiw.org/wiki/index.php?Borrowing%20words%20from%20Graeco-Lati
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>
> http://nuzban.wiw.org/wiki/index.php?Transliterating%20Graeco-Latin
>
> Please comment, here or there.

The diphthong "oi" is missing. So how would you transliterate "koilakanthos" 
(a kind of fish known from fossils of which the finprlatimeria va'i gombesa 
is extant)?

phma