History: Borrowing words

Source of version: 1 (current)

Words are borrowed into Lojban as ((fu'ivla)).

In day-to-day use, such borrowing can be and in fact already are ''ad hoc'', without much damage being done -- mainly because all Lojbanists currently share English as a source of loans. For consistency and respectability, however, it is desirable to have canonical loan word forms, both in transliteration and in morphology, for inclusion in a Lojban dictionary.

*((IPA to Lojban Mapping))
**The ((refgram)) gives a [http://www.lojban.org/files/reference-grammar/chap3.html#s2|Lojban to IPA Mapping], which should serve as the basis for any such proposal.
*((Borrowing words from Graeco-Latin))
*((Borrowing from Loglan))
*((Borrowing from Klingon))
*((Making type-4 fu'ivla))

History: Borrowing words

Source of version: 1 (current)

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