On Thursday 11 October 2007 05:50, Yoav Nir wrote: > Hi. > I'm new to studying lojban, and am working my way through "Lojban for > beginners" > > I have a few questions already. > > First, is how to spell my name. I know the English spelling doesn't give a > lot of clues (it's a Hebrew name). It's pronounced as two syllables, the > first is like "Yo" in yonder, the second "av" as in the first syllable of > "avril" in Spanish. I'm guessing that ioav won't cut it because of the > three consecutive vowels, so should it be io,av. Also am I supposed to > capitalize the second syllable (io,AV) to show where the stress is every > time, or is that optional?
{ioav} is pronounced the same as {io,av} because {io} is a Lojban diphthong and {oa} isn't. If a name has an aleph in it, you can't pronounce it in Lojban as a glottal stop. Doing so would turn it into two words {io av}; the first marks the previous word with respect, and the second could be the name of a month. The stress must be indicated if it differs from the default. The default stress rule, though, was formulated for brivla, which don't have some vowel patterns that occur in cmevla: diphthongs with 'y', 'y' in two consecutive syllables, and 'y' in the last syllable. Then there are some languages that don't have a stress accent, and there's no way to indicate that a cmevla has no accent. > Second, I've read that lojban names have to end in a consonant, so if they > don't, we add one. My question is, do we pronounce the 's' in la meiris ? Yes. Pierre