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>> "lowest-common-denominator set of phonemes" They already spent a bunch of time and effort finding these phonemes to build Esperanto, right?
by avn2109 11y ago
>> "lowest-common-denominator set of phonemes"
They already spent a bunch of time and effort finding these phonemes to build Esperanto, right?
- stormbrew 11y agoThat would probably still be a very eurocentric set of phonemes, so probably would not really be suitable for the modern multilingual world, I would think.
- pgeorgi 11y agoEsperanto was designed to be partially understandable by people across Europe by lifting words from various languages liberally. Lojban is designed to be well-defined on phonemes, but that still only works when knowing its (rather simple) pronunciation rules.
- jodrellblank 11y agoNo, see this criticism of Esperanto phonemes: http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/#b http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/#b Its choices are large, irregular, unclearly defined and basically Eastern Polish.