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What Is Lojban?
Lojban is a 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.
The following are the main features of Lojban:
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Lojban is designed to be used by people in
communication with each other, and
possibly in the future with computers.
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Lojban is designed to be culturally
neutral.
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<@>Lojban grammar is based on the principles of
logic.
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Lojban has an unambiguous grammar.
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Lojban has phonetic spelling, and
unambiguous resolution of sounds into words.
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Lojban is simple compared to natural
languages; it is easy to learn.
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Lojban's 1300 root words can be easily
combined to form a vocabulary of millions of
words.
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Lojban is regular; the rules of the language are
without exception.
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Lojban attempts to remove restrictions
on creative and clear thought and communication.
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Lojban has a variety of uses, ranging
from the creative to the scientific, from the
theoretical to the practical.
For more information on what Lojban is, and why people are learning
it, see the Lojban
Introductory Brochure.
Last modified: Mon Jun 27 23:11:50 PDT 2005
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