from Wikibooks: Lojban/Cmene
In Lojban names are called cmene (pronouced shmen-eh, IPA /ʃme.ne/), and are transliterated to use only Lojban sounds. In Lobjan all words end in a vowel, and so to avoid any possible confusion all cmene end in a consonant; if a transliterated name would end in a vowel, it is usual to add an s to the end. All cmene are followed by a full stop, so confusion to where the name stops and the next word starts it avoided; for this reason, any names beginning in a vowel have a full stop in front of them. To indicate an accent somewhere other than the second-to-last syllable, the entire syllable to be accented must be capitalised. A comma should be used to stop two vowels next to each other that should not be pronouced as a dipthong. All names must have the word 'la', meaning 'the', placed before them. A few examples are below:
English | Lojban |
---|---|
New York | nu,IORK (in some accents ni,IORK) |
Cynthia | sinti,a (pronounced SEEN-tee-ah) |
Daniel | daniyl (DAHN-yuhl) |
Exercises
English names to Cmene
Translate these names to Lojban cmene.
- Jacob
- Emily
- Michael
- Madison
- Joshua
- Hannah
- Matthew
- Emma
- Ethan
- Alexis
- Joseph
- Ashley
- Andrew
- Abigail
- Christopher
- Sarah
- Daniel
- Samantha
- Nicholas
- Olivia
Cmene to English names
Translate these Lojban cmene to English names.
- la .ueliem.
- la .ilezabet.
- la .entonis.
- la .alesas.
- la deived.
- la laren.
- la tailer.
- la .ezabelas.
- la .alekzander.
- la greis.
- la rai,en.
- la djeseka.
- la djan.
- la brianas.
- la djeimz.
- la teiler.
- la zekeris.
- la keilas.
- la brendan.
- la .ennas.
Answers to Exercises
No one pronouciation of a name is the right one, so use common sense whe deciding if you got these right or not.
English names to Cmene
- la djeikeb.
- la .emelis.
- la maikel.
- la medesen.
- la djaciu,as.
- la xennas.
- la ma'ius.
- la .emas.
- la .i'an.
- la .alekses.
- la djosef.
- la .aclis.
- la .endrus.
- la .ebegeil.
- la krestofer.
- la seiras.
- la daniel.
- la samentas.
- la nekoles.
- la .olevias.
Cmene to English names
- William
- Elizabeth
- Anthony
- Alyssa
- David
- Lauren
- Tyler
- Isabella
- Alexander
- Grace
- Ryan
- Jessica
- John
- Brianna
- James
- Taylor
- Zachary
- Kayla
- Brandon
- Anna