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Okay. To summarize the changes necessary to read Lojban's diagrammed
summary, part 1 (http://www.lojban.org/files/brochures/lojex.txt) and
apply it to Ceqli:
Metalinguistic words:
bridi (predicate) -> preja
sumti (argument) -> gjume
selbri (predicate relation) -> bepreja
mi (I/me, we/us the speakers) -> go
do (you (singular or plural)) -> zi
[Why was "zi" chosen over other possible cognates for "you" (like 'tu'
or 'du'?)]
ti (this) -> ci
ta (that) -> ca
tu (that yonder) -> cu
[Or have these turned into tci, tca, tcu? Is <affricate>V a pinvor
form?]
zo'e (something) -> zjo
Names are expressed with "ti" and a word ending with a full consonant
and a pause. "ti djans.", "ti .meris."
cu -> ga
vau (predicate terminator) -> vjaj
vecnu (x1 sells x2 to x3 for price x4) -> ven (x1 sells x2 to x3)
tavla (x1 talks to x2 about x3 in language x4) -> kal(?) (x1 talks to x2
about x3)
melbi (x1 is beautiful to x2 by standard x3) -> bel (x1 is beautiful to
x2)
xu (yes/no) -> kwe(?)
fa/fe/fi/fo/fu (place tags) -> fa/fe/fi
They don't use the word "gismu" up to this point, but it's another
common metalinguistic word ("root word"). Lojban's etymology file has
"geniuan" as the phonetic spelling of the Chinese source word, and
"korin" from Russian; the other languages don't really have anything
useful. Should Ceqli use "geni"?
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ti .rab. spirc.