View source for if alphabetical order of numbers matched numerical order


0		no		=> b- (e.g. bau)

1		pa		=> ca

2		re		=> de

3		ci		=> fi

4		vo		=> go

5		mu		=> ju

6		xa		=> ka

7		ze		=> le

8		bi		=> mi

9		so		=> no

10		dau		=> pu

11		fei		=> ra

12		gai		=> se

13		jau		=> ti

14		rei		=> vo

15		vai		=> zu

Notes:

1. /x/ is not used in this series because an offical alternative orthography represents it as <h>.

2. The only 5-member CV cmavo series is the FA series, and this could have been changed thus:

fa/fe/fi/fo/fu => xa/xe/xi/xo/xu

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Of course, one needs to take into consideration the fact that this would destroy a number of other alphabetic series.

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But all destroyed series would have workarounds, e.g. by changing the intitial C. It goes without saying that the above scheme would have caused wholesale reshuffling of the cmavo form--function assignments.

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[[tinkit|tinkit]] hmm, i like it.  more because the hexadecimal cmavo don't look different than the others.