Letter names

[janKalepa]

Is there (or, maybe it's a good proposal for future) a names for letters? It may be useful. We can't, for example, call tokipona ABS - Aei, because it's not a word. We also can't read (having no names for letters) a text:

ona li sitelen e nimi 'B'.


"nimi bi", like in English, or "nimi beta" or "nimi be"(Slavic)?

Maybe, justa simplest scheme: an, en, in.... bi, ti, ni ... But understandable, known, and used by everyone. Of - there is a such system?

[janKipo]

But there is no tp 'b', etc. so the problem is to find names for letters for which we don't have sounds. While we're at it, we need names for numerals as well, even if we can start with 'ala, wan tu' (which we probably shouldn't). There are a couple of attempts on both these projects back in the archives somewhere. Of course, the results would be proper names and we have no word for "letter" for them to attach to either.

[Kuti]

http://en.tokipona.org/wiki/Alphabet

[janKipo]

But there is also an unofficial and more complete list or two in the pile at the bottom of the index page.

(Just notice your epigraph: dubious; sexual excitement is not a feature of Lojbanists.)

[Kuti]

I can't find the longer version

( that makes it more funny )

[janKipo]

(Ah! good point!)
Not in the archive at all, but in Crazy People who want to change tp, search for "letters and Numerals" (or maybe the other way 'round) It's mine, alas; I thought someone else had stuck one in and I was replying.

[janKalepa]

http://en.tokipona.org/wiki/Alphabet

tooo elaborate.... i'd prefer somethind deadly simple...

[janKipo]

But deadly simple doesn't work: there are too many letters and too few sounds, hence the complexities. Well, some complexities; these are from personal quirks -- mine or Sonja's.