Lojban/Cmene

In Lojban names are called cmene (pronouced shmen-eh, IPA /ʃme.ne/), and are transliterated to use only Lojban sounds. In Lojban 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.

1. Jacob
2. Emily
3. Michael
4. Madison
5. Joshua
6. Hannah
7. Matthew
8. Emma
9. Ethan
10. Alexis
11. Joseph
12. Ashley
13. Andrew
14. Abigail
15. Christopher
16. Sarah
17. Daniel
18. Samantha
19. Nicholas
20. Olivia

Cmene to English names

Translate these Lojban cmene to English names.

1. la .ueliem.
2. la .ilezabet.
3. la .entonis.
4. la .alesas.
5. la deived.
6. la laren.
7. la tailer.
8. la .ezabelas.
9. la .alekzander.
10. la greis.
11. la rai,en.
12. la djeseka.
13. la djan.
14. la brianas.
15. la djeimz.
16. la teiler.
17. la zekeris.
18. la keilas.
19. la brendan.
20. 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

1. la djeikeb.
2. la .emelis.
3. la maikel.
4. la medesen.
5. la djaciu,as.
6. la xennas.
7. la ma'ius.
8. la .emas.
9. la .i'an.
10. la .alekses.
11. la djosef.
12. la .aclis.
13. la .endrus.
14. la .ebegeil.
15. la krestofer.
16. la seiras.
17. la daniel.
18. la samentas.
19. la nekoles.
20. la .olevias.

Cmene to English names

1. William
2. Elizabeth
3. Anthony
4. Alyssa
5. David
6. Lauren
7. Tyler
8. Isabella
9. Alexander
10. Grace
11. Ryan
12. Jessica
13. John
14. Brianna
15. James
16. Taylor
17. Zachary
18. Kayla
19. Brandon
20. Anna