Lojban - Conlang Profile	Advanced
Language Name Lojban Language Author The Logical Language Group Year Began 1993 Site Lojban Broken Link No Site Language English Language Type logical language Editorial Designed by others as a continuation of Loglan, Lojban (its name is a contraction for "Logical Language" in Lojban) is the most professional and thought-provoking of the modern logical languages, with a fascinating methodology for deriving its root words from Arabic, Chinese, English, Hindi, Russian and Spanish. Extensive information is available on-line. For the sheer joy of it, you should check out how Tolkien's Tengwar alphabet can provide "a romantic orthography for Lojban". Uniqueness Claudio Gnoli writes, "A revised version of Loglan, with mainly lexical changes, began by a group of loglanists disagreeing with Cooke Brown's way of managing it. A fixed grammar, written by John Cowan, has been published in 1997. LLG has several active members, who are in contact via a mailing list, some of which, like Jorge Llambias and Nick Nicholas, are able to speak current Lojban. All this makes Lojban to be the main reference language for today's loglangers." "Lojban has a whole array of emotional indicators, with optional intensity indicators as well, expressing about 80 significant emotions. These can also be subdivided as physical, social, emotional, intellectual, sexual, or spiritual varieties. AFAIK, Lojban has the richest facility for emotional expression of any known conlang, which is rather ironic for a 'logical language' (but moving the emotional expressiveness out of thelogic-based core makes sense in its own way)." - John Cowan Language Sources Root words based on the six most widely spoken languages; grammar based on first-order predicate logic. It has 1350 root words, hundreds of particles and thousands of compound words. Design Principles Predicate Logic, consistency. The original idea was to create an artificial language with which to test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Quotation mi viska le mlatu ku poi zo'e zbasu ke'a loi slasi Explanation I see the cat(s) such-that something-unspecified makes it/them (the cats) from-a-mass-of plastic. Translation I see the cat(s) made of plastic. Dictionary Yes Etymologies No Grammar Yes Sample Texts Yes Unique Script No Primer Yes Babel Text Yes Lexicon Size 8,000 Submitted By NA Updated By Jeffrey Henning Date Edited Monday, September 20, 2004 Description Of Update Added quotation and translation, as well as John Cowan's recent comment on uniqueness. Date To Headline Tuesday, October 05, 2004 < Logulos  Lojban  Lojsk >
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