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PEG Morphology Algorithm

posts: 1912


> So far as I know, Lojban syllabification has never been clearly
> defined.
>
> I assume that both cmaxes and valfendi make decisions about this.
> Is there any way to know if they've made the same decisions?

There is no need to fully define syllabification. All we need
is to agree on what counts as a syllable core, and we all
agree about that: Only ai, au, ai, oi, ia, ie, ii, io, iu,
ua, ue, ui, uo, uu, a, e, i, o, and u count as syllable cores.
Nothing else. And vowel strings of more than two vowels break
in pairs from the left, as long as the pair is a valid diphthong.

The only doubt is whether we can use a comma to override
the left to right pairing. We seem to agree that we cannot.

mu'o mi'e xorxes




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