Lojban: The Logical Language

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Lojbanic Translations

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Community Translations

• The Lojbanic Translation Wiki is a good place to go if you would like to help with ongoing translations, but CVS is not your style. It is very easy to contribute to a Wiki.

• The lojban cvs translation server hold a fair bit of current community-based translations.

Automated Translation Results

These are automated lojban-only versions of things being worked on in cvs or on the traslation wiki. Generated about once every 2 hours.

• Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

• The Christian Bible

• The Book, by H. P. Lovecraft

• Versions of the lojban.org pages: main page in lojban, publications page in lojban, publications page in Esperanto, main page in Esperanto

Individual Translations

• A translation by John Cowan of the children's book "Tikki-Tikki Tembo". Easy text.
• Some fables by Aesop, translated from the Greek. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• A translation of the first page of a higher algebra text. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• A few lines from Beowulf: an attempt to preserve the semantic and syntactic devices of the original. Tr. John Cowan.
• A Greek folk tale. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• Another Greek folk tale. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• The Nicene creed, a major Christian statement of faith, from the Greek. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• Short story by Lucian of Samosata, 2nd-century Greek author. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• Part of a book by Freddy Germanos, modern Greek journalist. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• Song "The Merryman & His Maid", aka "I Have A Song To Sing, O!" from the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta Yeomen of the Guard. Tr. Lojbab.
• Creation story from the Hebrew Bible. Tr. Mark Shoulson.
• "On A Bitter Occasion", by Kalman Kalocsay, Esperanto poet. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• A Roman legend, composed in Polish by Orzekso, translated into Esperanto by Kabe. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• Translation of an Esperanto translation of a Lithuanian/Polish folk song. The Esperanto version appeared in the Esperanto Fundamental Chrestomathy in 1905. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• A prosaic version of the Lord's Prayer from the New Testament. From the English, corrected by reference to the Greek. Tr. Lojbab.
• Martin Luther King's famous "I Have A Dream" speech. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• Several very short Chinese folk tales. Tr. Preston Maxwell, rev. Nick Nicholas.
• A poem by Soviet Esperantist Evgeny Mikhalski. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• "The Mildew of the World", written in Polish by Boleslaw Prus, translated into Esperanto by Kabe. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• A self-referential story by David Moser, printed in Douglas Hofstadter's column and book Metamagical Themas. Every sentence refers to itself, including the title, which is "This is the title of the story, which is repeated several times in the story itself." Perfect for Lojban. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• The well-known story "North Wind And Sun". This has been translated into hundreds of languages. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• The first few paragraphs of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death". Tr. Jorge LLambias.
• An interview by Freddy Germanos of Ringo Starr, presumably conducted in English, but published in Greek. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• A text by Ralph Roughton, origin unknown. Tr. Colin Fine.
• from "Greek Mythology" by modern Greek humorist and slang devotee Nikos Tsiforos. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• A single paragraph by scientist/writer Lancelot Law Whyte. Contains English original, Lojban translation, word-by-word gloss, and a word-by- word gloss of a 1977 Loglan version by J.R. Atkins, showing the different styles of tanru in effect at that time. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• Lyric from a Suzanne Vega song, "Words". Tr. Lojbab, with commentary based on Nick Nicholas's translation of the same poem into other artificial languages. Also available in TeX format.

Last modified: Mon Jun 27 23:11:46 PDT 2005

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