gua\spi

A sibling of Lojban, which uses Chinese-like tones to mark grammatical structure, developed by Jim Carter.

• Here is various useful documentation.
• The mailing list can be found here.
• IRC Channel: #gua\spi at irc.freenode.net
• Here is a gua\spi video.
• Here is John Cowan's critique of the language from a Lojban viewpoint.
• Blog posts of a Lojbanist learning Gua\spi.

History

• When Jim Carter introduced Gua\spi there was not much interest and he became too busy to keep working on it.
• However in 2013 there was an activity to resurrect it again.

Discussion

• User:bobgrif:

  I have been trying to put together a small practical list of words and phrases based on the booklets given US soldiers in WWII. I am using the word-lists and phrase-lists from the Malay and Cantonese booklets as my source. I hope (Insha'allah) to be finished (alpha version 1.0) within the next few months (can only work on it sporadically). When I'm finished, I intend to send J Carter a copy for response/correction. If there's anyone else here who would like a preliminary copy, please email me (MugglesNSquibs@msn.com).

• John Cowan:

  I got into Lojban from -gua!spi, probably the only person who ever has.

• And Rosta:

  I can't quite claim the same, but I think I ftp-ed info on Loglan and 'gua!spi from Mark Shoulson's old Planned Language Server before I knew of Lojban.

• Plastic Raven:

  mi krici le du'u le ti bangu cu nandu .i lonu bacru lo tonga kei pe la guaspis. nandu .i la guaspis. vasru xa tonga