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> I didn't realize the ' was intended to be a sort of 'h' sound. Is it in > contrast with a stronger h in Lojban? Well, I don't know if the ' was _intended_ as a sort of 'h' sound, but the fact is that it IS a sort of 'h' sound. And it is in constrast with 'x', which can easily be considered to be a sort of 'stronger h'. That's a main inconvenience of Lojban's phonology, since having both h and x is not at all such a common feature, and of all the six languages taken as models for lojban, only in Arabic do they use both. > If we allow cmavo to have the shape PV(V), regarding V as including vowels > and semivowels, however represented, we have the six P's ? b, p, d, t, g, k, > multiplied times the number of possible V(V)'s > > a, e, i, o, u, y --- 36 CV's > j before each --- 36 CjV's > and w 36 CwV's > then aw,, aj, > ej, oj 24 CV(semivowel) > and the possible > vowel pairs: > ae, ai, ao, au, > ea, ei, eo, eu, > ia, ie, io, iu > oa, oe, oi, ou, > ua, ue, ui, uo 60 CVV's > > That adds up to 192. Lojban has 595. Hm. Is 192 enough? How many of > those 595 are high-frequency? In high-frequency? In which language? In Spanish any two vowel combination is in common use except for "ou" which is the only diphthong banned from our phonology --though "ou" is in fact sometimes pronounced due to the gliding of vowels of adjacent words (such a as in "lo usual", pronounced as [low'swal]), a phenomenon known in Spanish as "sinalefa". Best regards, Javier