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> > .a A sumti or > > .e A sumti and > > .o A sumti iff > > .u A sumti whether > > I looked up the period and learned that it symbolizes a pause. I never > liked the pause thing in Loglan, because, mainly, it wasn't indicated in the > orthography, and seemed to be very necessary to keep the morphemes straight. > Should we allow names to begin with nonconsonants preceded by a '.' in > Ceqli? And if so, would it be reasonable to call it a pause _and_ glottal > stop? The problem is that the glottal stop would be already in use to draw a clear distinction between, e.g. aw and au or ij and ii, so that [u] and [?u], [i] and [?i], etc. would in fact be allophones of /u/, /i/... the latter allophone to be used when the vowel starts a syllable itself. Lojban considers both glottals as phonemes, reserves them for special purposes and spells them with a quite unusual orthography: ' for /h/ and . for /?/. A pause without a glottal stop is simply an allophone of "." in Lojban. Cheers, Javier