cmavo selma'o meaning
bu BU makes previous word into a lerfu word
ga'e BY upper case shift
to'a BY lower case shift
tau LAU case-shift next lerfu word only
lo'a BY Latin/Lojban alphabet shift
ge'o BY Greek alphabet shift
je'o BY Hebrew alphabet shift
jo'o BY Arabic alphabet shift
ru'o BY Cyrillic alphabet shift
se'e BY following digits are a character code
na'a BY cancel all shifts
zai LAU following lerfu word specifies alphabet
ce'a LAU following lerfu word specifies font
lau LAU following lerfu word is punctuation
tei TEI start compound lerfu word
foi FOI end compound lerfu word
Note that LAU cmavo must be followed by a BY cmavo or the equivalent, where “equivalent” means: either any Lojban word followed by “bu”, another LAU cmavo (and its required sequel), or a “tei ... foi” compound cmavo.