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On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 06:49:13AM -0600, Rex May - Baloo wrote:
> Let's be systematic about this. Let's say we want to reLoglanize Ceqli.
> Loglan people, how many structure words will we need, assuming we go with
> the Loglan/Lojban decision about what is and is not a structure word? Come
> to think of it, do Loglan and Lojban agree on this?
Lojban has 595 cmavo ("little words"). You can consider these structure
words, but really a cmavo is any word that is not a predicate.
This is more than Loglan had.
Right now I'm experimenting with rearranging the Lojban cmavo
to fit a Ceqli-ish format. The form I'm using is C(C)V(V) - one or two
consonants (but not weaks) and one or two vowels.
(In a concession to Lojban I'm not counting y and w as weaks, nor h as a
consonant, and putting back ' to separate vowels that don't form a
diphthong. I tried it the other way, using y or w in between, but with
so many words coming out like "coyo" and "kiwe" it got too heavy on the
vowels.)
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Rob Speer