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A ''digit'' is one of ''1'', ''2'', ''3'', ''4'', ''5'', ''6'', ''7'', ''8'', ''9'', ''0''. They can stand for the syllables '''pa''', '''re''', '''ci''', '''vo''', '''mu''', '''xa''', '''ze''', '''bi''', '''so''', '''no''' in [[Morphology: cmavo|cmavo]], in which case they constitute the whole [[Morphology: cmavo|cmavo]], as part of a [[Morphology: cmene|cmene]], anywhere but at the end of it. They cannot appear in [[Morphology: brivla|brivla]].

A ''pause'' is any number (at least one) of ''space-character''s, possibly preceded by ''commas''.

A ''space-character'' is a blank, a dot, a question mark, an exclamation mark, an end-of-line or an end of string.

A ''comma'' is accepted anywhere and absorbed by the following character, treated as if it wasn't there (not a space!).

A ''non-lojban-word'' is any string of non-''space-character''s up to the next ''pause'' such that it does not begin with a [[Morphology: words|Lojban-word]]. Any string that contains an unrecognized character or an impermissible sequence is a ''non-lojban-word''.