that isjanKipo wrote: Well, slash -- and back-slash -- also dash and equals are easy to write long hand and are lower case on (American) keyboards. I agree that slash and backslash should not both be used, but slash and dash take care of two major breaks, with maybe equals for the less common 'la'. And, again, I like just 'p' for 'pi'.
la l /
li i \
e e -
pi p =
o o !
on the numerical keypad one can use * and + as low case. btw, for example, on german keyboard = is the upper case, @ is Alt+Q. so perhaps it is better to have several alternative styles for separators, but forbide the mixture of thereof.
the author (Maxim Solokhin) was asked but did not reply.i suppose it is a 10kb corpus from yahoo message board and some texts from jan Pije and Yves Prudhomme's sites, as mentioned here.What corpus (I'm sure it says in there, but I don't even read Cyrillic very well)?
yes i expected to see poka much higher.Some at the low end are rather surprising, but the result of the sorts of things we talk about here
i analysed the legend of Gilgamesh by jak Ote (1700 tp words and 126 proper names), these are the top results:
1 li_______* ___226___ 0,132941176
2 jan_____jn___ 183___ 0,107647059
3 e________~___ 119___ 0,07
4 ona_____on___ 101___ 0,059411765
5 ni______ni___ 70___ 0,041176471
6 tawa____tw___ 64___ 0,037647059
7 pi_______@___ 51___ 0,03
8 soweli__ow___ 42___ 0,024705882
9 kama___km___ 37___ 0,021764706
10 tomo___tm___ 34___ 0,02
11 toki_____tk___ 33___ 0,019411765
12 mi_____mi___ 31___ 0,018235294
13 sina____sa___ 30___ 0,017647059
14 sama___sm___ 28___ 0,016470588
15 wawa__ww___ 26___ 0,015294118
16 o________!___ 25___ 0,014705882
17 sewi____sw___ 25___ 0,014705882
18 ala_____aa___ 23___ 0,013529412
19 la_______^___ 23___ 0,013529412
20 ma____ma___ 22___0,012941176
without table support it is hard to add more results, but pona is #34, poka is #38, pali is #44, pana is #62
from this, the version 01 could be better. as for separators, we should give a suitable keys for li, e, pi, other two are not that important.
interestingly, the Zipf law is observed untill "weka" (#53)