PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN OLD VERSION. The current version is linked from The Complete Lojban Language.

lojbo sinxa la lojban. logji bangu lojbo sinxa

mu'i le nu do se citno la lojban. to .uecai toi .a le dei samxruebe pagbu vau pe'u ko tcidu le sidju pagbu

facki fi la lojban. [ sidju | datni | cafne pagbu | stuzi cartu | sisku ]
sampu datni la lojban. [ cafne preti | datni la lojban. | no'e steci datni la lojbangirz. | nuzba ]
cilre la lojban. [ cnino | slabu | se tcidu fi'o te karni la lojbangirz. | se tcidu bau la lojban. ]
sidju le lojbo [ se kamni | kamni fi la lojbangirz. | segau makau do sidju | pinka ]
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The Lojban Reference Grammar

This directory contains the current reference grammar. This is the pre-final version, and has some typos.

Anyone interested is urged to read the book and send comments to John Cowan at <[email protected]>.

Here are the individual chapters:

  1. Lojban As We Mangle It In Lojbanistan: About This Book
  2. A Quick Tour of Lojban Grammar, With Diagrams
  3. The Hills Are Alive With The Sounds Of Lojban
  4. The Shape Of Words To Come: Lojban Morphology
  5. "Pretty Little Girls' School": The Structure Of Lojban selbri
  6. To Speak Of Many Things: The Lojban sumti
  7. Brevity Is The Soul Of Language: Pro-sumti And Pro-bridi
  8. Relative Clauses, Which Make sumti Even More Complicated
  9. To Boston Via The Road Go I, With An Excursion Into The Land Of Modals
  10. Imaginary Journeys: The Lojban Space/Time Tense System
  11. Events, Qualities, Quantities, And Other Vague Words: On Lojban Abstraction
  12. Dog House And White House: Determining lujvo Place Structures
  13. Oooh! Arrgh! Ugh! Yecch! Attitudinal and Emotional Indicators
  14. If Wishes Were Horses: The Lojban Connective System
  15. "No" Problems: On Lojban Negation
  16. "Who Did You Pass On The Road? Nobody": Lojban And Logic
  17. As Easy As A-B-C? The Lojban Letteral System And Its Uses
  18. lojbau mekso: Mathematical Expressions in Lojban
  19. Putting It All Together: Notes on the Structure of Lojban Texts
  20. A Catalogue of selma'o
  21. Formal Grammars

The entire reference grammar is available as an archive:

The hardbound version has been announced

romoi galfi ca Mon Jun 27 23:10:52 PDT 2005

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