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on 4/16/02 5:39 AM, uaxuctum at uaxuctum@hidden.email wrote: >> 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". > I don't mean the frequency of the sound combinations. I mean how high-frequency are the Lojban cmavo? With 595, many of them have to be pretty low-frequency. -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/