transliterating Graeco-Latin

The following sound correspondences were used by JCB in Loglan 1 (Brown, J.C. 1989. Loglan 1. 4th ed. Gainsville (FL.): The Loglan Institute.) pp. 438-439, to map Linnaean names to Loglan; I think they are sound for Lojban, but am interested in opinions.

Note that these rules concern Linnaean names, which include words from far and wide; they are not restricted to Graeco-Latin.

Note that I rewrote these rules already in The Book, section 4.8. (JWC)

Aaaargh. I retract everything and anything then. The Book rules are binding, as far as I'm concerned. -- mi'e nitcion.

aa

a. aardvark => ardvark

ae

ai-or-ae => e. aegyptopithecus => egiptopithekus

c

c before C/a/o/u => k; c followed by e/i/y, or matched in the symbol of an element word, unchanged. canid => kanid; but violoncello => violoncelo and californium => californium

cc

cc followed by e/i/y => kc; otherwise cc => k. succinta => sukcinta, but Echinococcus => ekinokokus.

• How about cc followed by e/i/y => tc? --mi'e tsali

CC

Any double instance of a C not c is replaced by a single instance of that C. Bettongia => betongia

ch

k. Escherichia => eskerikia

• Here, I think there is a case for Lojban 'x' instead.
• If this is German, which is what it looks like, it should be, it should be ecerixia. Similarly Eschscholtzia -=> ecoltsia (California poppy; the name is �schholz transliterated into Russian and back). -- phma

• In the interest of common sense, I'm prepared to go along with this: if the name is not Latin, native pronunciation should be emulated --- mi'e nitcion.

ee

i. sakeen => sakin

eigh

ei. leightoni => leitoni

ew

u. Andrewsarchus => andrusarkus

h

h in VhC => VCh to make it pronounceable. ahli => alhi

• In Lojban, I'd just drop it.

ie

i; non final ie unchanged. calorie => calori

• Error for kalori, of course

igh

ai. lightfooti => laitfuti

ii

i; non final ie unchanged. livingstonii => livinstoni

lh

lh- => elh; non-initial lhC => lC; non-initial lhV unchanged. lhoesti => elhoesti

• I'd just drop the h in Lojban.

ng

ngC => nC; ngV unchanged. livingstonii => livinstoni, but Bettongia => betongia. Loglan-specific word breaking apart rules omitted.

oo

u; except in 'zoo-' and other disyllables in which oo remains unchanged. lightfooti => laitfuti, but Zoothera => zoothera

• The diphthongal oo is of course Greek, not Latin (omega + omicron)

ou

u when within a natural form: youngi => iungi; when split between two forms, unchanged: thiourea = thio + urea => tiourea

ow

ao: owstoni => aostoni

• In Lojban, this becomes au.

ph

f; ph- => eph in very short words; non-initial ph unchanged when it will give an otherwise breaking word. phenyl => fenil, but phyla => ephila; and ophiocomina => ophiokomina

• None of this need detain us; blanket ph => f is fine.

pt

ept; non initial pt remains unchanged. Pterocera => epterocera.

• I see no reason for this in Lojban.

pn

n; non-initial pn remains unchanged. pneumonia => neumonia.

• I see no reason for this either.

q

k. antiquitas => antikuitas.

qu

in Spanish source words quV => kV; but in a Linnaean, quV => kuV. braquiopodo => brakiopodo; but Madoqua => madokua

• Spanish was JCB's preferred source language.

rh

r; rhC => rC; non-initial rhV unchanged. rhodopsin => rodopsin

sc

sk. sclerosis => sklerosis.

th

when not followed by a stressed V, th => t; when followed by V', h is retained. Also, if the th-containing word is related to one in which h preceded V', keep the h. Thus ethylene ethileni et-hee-LEH-nee is related to ethyl ethili et-HEE-lee and so keeps its h.

• Lojban can just reduce it to t in all cases.

y

i. Amphyosemian => amfiosemian

yn

un whenever the n is the last C in the word. butenyne => butenune, but dynamo => dinamo

• I have no idea where this is coming from.

x

x- => z unless matched in the symbol of an element word, when unchanged; when non-initial, => ks. xenyl => zenil, but Atilax => atilaks; xenon unchanged.

w

u unless matched in the symbol of an element word, e.g., lawrencium

• Untenable in Lojban

j

Not rewritten; it is retained and pronounced as Loglan zh.