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plural brivla
(Lojban grammar) A Lojban predicate word. Specifically, a word which may be used to express a selbri relation (a statement of truth of one kind or another) between a number of arguments. Gismu, lujvo and fu'ivla are all brivla. quotations examples
They often have no semantic meaning in themselves, though they may affect the semantics of brivla to which they are attached.
1997, John W. Cowan, The Complete Lojban Language
Fix major bugs in the lexical analysis for cmafi'e (brivla mis-scanned as sequences of cmavo joined together.)
a. 2001, Richard Curnow
Currently, it lexes cmene, cmavo, and brivla, and checkes [sic] cmene and cmavo for validity, but does not do full validity checking of brivla.
a. 2003, Pierre Abbat
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