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> >
> > (1) "It is always legal to use the apostrophe (IPA h) sound in
> > pronouncing a comma."
> >
> > (2) "Commas are never required: no two Lojban words differ solely
> > because of the presence or placement of a comma."
> >
> > (3) "There exist 16 diphthongs in the Lojban language. ... Diphthongs
> > always constitute a single syllable."
>
> (1) is a leftover from Loglan, or a confusion because of the Loglan
> compatibility orthography, or something like that, and is incorrect.

OK, good.

> Diphthongs are pronounced as one syllable, unless there is a comma between
> the vowels, but the comma makes no difference to whether it's a valid word,
> or which one (the question of which one is moot with cmene, since they can be
> polysemous). So {kankua} and {kanku,a} are the same word, though stressed on
> different syllables, and {kanku'a} is different.

What happens with things like {prua} vs. {pru,a}.
{prua} can't be a valid fuhivla because it has only one syllable,
but {pru,a} seems to fill all the requisites for valid fuhivlahood.

> I asked the same question
> when I was developing valfendi.

Yes, I vaguely remember, but I didn't remember the answers.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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