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[[Presenting Lojban|Read about more features when presenting Lojban]].
[[Presenting Lojban|Read about more features when presenting Lojban]].
===Lojban is a living language===
Lojban is spoken by a vibrant community of speakers, primarily concentrated on [[mailing list]]s and [[Lojban IRC|IRC text chat]]. Each member of this community strives to do what's best for Lojban, though we have frequent disagreements, we are a lively community, producing literature, music, and art. When the webcomic [https://www.xkcd.com/191/ XKCD] said that you'd have to be speaking Lojban with Lojbanists, it was indicating one of the best features of Lojban.
Come, join our community and make Lojban a living language to be remembered in the generations to come.
This website stores basic information on Lojban for free public access.
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Revision as of 08:47, 22 July 2014

Lojban 25th Anniversary celebration, 2013, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.

Lojban (pronounced as [ˈloʒban]) is a constructed language (a conlang), based around the rules of predicate logic, succeeding the project of Loglan.

A short introduction to Lojban

  • Lojban is an experiment in language — the grammar is regular, simpler than most natural languages, but complex in its own unique way. Lojban is an experiment in thought, as well, it wishes to see how these unique language structures affect thought and cognition.
  • Lojban allows the expression of emotion, using words called attitudinals, which are essentially spoken emoticons, expressing your feelings. You can indicate the precise degree and intensity of your emotion as well as indicate which word your emotion stems from. You can even indicate that your statement was meant as a joke, a quick argument defuser.
  • Lojban allows you to communicate concisely without unnecessary or undesired details. For example, you don't have to always think of what tense (past, present or future) to use in a verb when it's already clear from context. When you wish to provide the details you can add them. But unlike other languages Lojban doesn't require you to do so.
  • Lojban is syntactically unambiguous. Natural languages often have ambiguous sentences — does "He's left" mean that he's still here or that he's gone? Lojban systematically eliminates this.
  • Lojban has around 1400 basic words and makes provisions for compound words and borrowings. These words allow the creation of a vast vocabulary to describe the totality of human experience. Lojban vocabulary expands by the day, and the community of speakers strives towards perfecting it every day.
  • Lojban is machine parsable, which allows potential new explorations in the fields of artificial intelligence communication and machine translation.
  • Lojban is culturally neutral, as far as such things are achievable. The base vocabulary was generated using an algorithm and words from the (at the time of its creation) 6 most spoken languages on Earth, averaging them out. The Lojban community strives to maintain this neutrality.

Read about more features when presenting Lojban.

Lojban 25th Anniversary celebration, 2013, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.

Lojban (pronounced as [ˈloʒban]) is a constructed language (a conlang), based around the rules of predicate logic, succeeding the project of Loglan.

A short introduction to Lojban

  • Lojban is an experiment in language — the grammar is regular, simpler than most natural languages, but complex in its own unique way. Lojban is an experiment in thought, as well, it wishes to see how these unique language structures affect thought and cognition.
  • Lojban allows the expression of emotion, using words called attitudinals, which are essentially spoken emoticons, expressing your feelings. You can indicate the precise degree and intensity of your emotion as well as indicate which word your emotion stems from. You can even indicate that your statement was meant as a joke, a quick argument defuser.
  • Lojban allows you to communicate concisely without unnecessary or undesired details. For example, you don't have to always think of what tense (past, present or future) to use in a verb when it's already clear from context. When you wish to provide the details you can add them. But unlike other languages Lojban doesn't require you to do so.
  • Lojban is syntactically unambiguous. Natural languages often have ambiguous sentences — does "He's left" mean that he's still here or that he's gone? Lojban systematically eliminates this.
  • Lojban has around 1400 basic words and makes provisions for compound words and borrowings. These words allow the creation of a vast vocabulary to describe the totality of human experience. Lojban vocabulary expands by the day, and the community of speakers strives towards perfecting it every day.
  • Lojban is machine parsable, which allows potential new explorations in the fields of artificial intelligence communication and machine translation.
  • Lojban is culturally neutral, as far as such things are achievable. The base vocabulary was generated using an algorithm and words from the (at the time of its creation) 6 most spoken languages on Earth, averaging them out. The Lojban community strives to maintain this neutrality.

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