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[[Lojban]] is a [[jbocre: constructed language|constructed language]]. It was originally called [[Loglan]] by project founder [[Dr. James Cooke Brown]], who started the language development in 1955. [[Loglan]]/[[Lojban]] has been built over four decades by dozens of workers and hundreds of supporters, led since 1987 by [[The Logical Language Group]].
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* Lojban is designed to be used by people in communication with each other, and possibly in the future with computers.
* Lojban is designed to be [[jbocre: cultural neutrality|culturally neutral]].
* Lojban grammar is based on the [[principles of logic]]; but see [[logical language]].
* Lojban has an unambiguous [[jbocre: grammar|grammar]].
* Lojban has phonetic spelling, and unambiguous resolution of sounds into words.
* Lojban is simple compared to [[natural language]]s; it is easy to learn.
* Lojban's 1300 root words can be easily combined to form a vocabulary of millions of words.
* Lojban is regular; the rules of the language are without exception.
* Lojban attempts to remove restrictions on creative and clear thought and communication.
* Lojban has a variety of uses, ranging from the creative to the scientific, from the theoretical to the practical.
 
The [[Lojban]] homepage is [http://www.lojban.org/ lojban.org].
Quite a few other [[Lojban Resources]] exist on the web. You should check them out, too.
 
Apparently it's also time the [[FAQ]] was rewritten
 
If you're interested in answering the question "What is a good word for X?" then please consider viewing the [[Terminology]] page. (And contributing to it if you have an answer that we don't.)
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The much larger Wiki at c2.com has a whole section on Lojban and [[Loglan]] at [http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?LojbanLanguage]. It contained more lojban content when this wiki was young, but this has grown since then.
 
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There's an entry for '''Lojban''' now also in [http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Lojban] - a '''Wiki open Encyclopaedia project''' (see under ''"languages"''!)
 
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