Lojban
Sign in to saveLojban (pronounced ) is a logical, constructed human language created by the Logical Language Group, which aims to be syntactically unambiguous. It succeeds the Loglan project.
AI overview
Lojban is an artificial language designed by the Logical Language Group to remove the ambiguity found in natural languages like English, allowing statements to be expressed with complete logical clarity. It was developed as an improvement to an earlier project called Loglan and represents an attempt to create a language where grammar and meaning cannot be misunderstood.
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Key facts
- Language.posteriori
- Loglan
- Language.iso2
- jbo
- Language.image
- Lojban logo.svgborder
- Language.imagescale
- 0.7
- Language.creator
- Logical Language Group
- Language.created
- 1987
- Language.setting
- a logically engineered language for various usages
- Language.fam1
- Constructed languages
- Language.fam2
- engineered languages
- Language.fam3
- logical languages
- Language.script
- Primarily Latin, others available
- Language.speakers
- >5, Unknown.
Article
29 sectionsContents
- History
- Etymology
- Origins from Loglan
- Divergence from Loglan
- Contributors
- Learning resources
- Applications
- Literary and cultural language
- Means of creativity
- Programming language
- Speakable logic
- Potential machine interlingua
- Linguistic properties
- Grammar
- {{Anchor|Phonology|Orthography}} Phonology and orthography
- Morphology
- Syntax and semantics
- Lexicon
- Samples
- Common phrases
- Unique Lojbanic expressions
- ''The North Wind and the Sun''
- A Lojbanic poem (audio)
- Comparison with other logical languages
- Loglan
- gua\spi
- See also
- References
- External links
Lojban (pronounced ) is a logical, constructed human language created by the Logical Language Group, which aims to be syntactically unambiguous. It succeeds the Loglan project.
The Logical Language Group (LLG) began developing Lojban in 1987. The LLG sought to realize Loglan's purposes and further improve the language by making it more usable and freely available (as indicated by its official full English title, Lojban: A Realization of Loglan). After a long initial period of debating and testing, the baseline was completed in 1997 and published as The Complete Lojban Language. In an interview in 2010 with The New York Times, Arika Okrent, the author of In the Land of Invented Languages, stated, "The constructed language with the most complete grammar is probably Lojban—a language created to reflect the principles of logic."