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Lojban

Lojban
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Lojban logo.svg
Pronunciation [laʔˈloʒbanʔ]
Created by Logical Language Group
Date 1987
Setting and usage a logically engineered language for various usages
Purpose
Latin and others
Sources Loglan
Language codes
ISO 639-2 jbo
ISO 639-3
Glottolog None
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Lojban (pronounced [ˈloʒban]) is a constructed, syntactically unambiguous human language, succeeding the Loglan project.

The Logical Language Group (LLG) began developing Lojban in 1987. The LLG sought to realize Loglan's purposes, and further improve the language by making it more usable and freely available (as indicated by its official full English title, "Lojban: A Realization of Loglan"). After a long initial period of debating and testing, the baseline was completed in 1997, and published as The Complete Lojban Language. In an interview in 2010 with the New York Times, Arika Okrent, the author of In the Land of Invented Languages, stated: "The constructed language with the most complete grammar is probably Lojban—a language created to reflect the principles of logic."

Lojban is proposed as a speakable language used for communication between people of different language backgrounds, as a potential means of machine translation and to explore the intersection of human language and software.

The name "Lojban" is a compound formed from loj and ban, which are short forms of logji (logic) and bangu (language).

Lojban has a predecessor, Loglan, a language invented by James Cooke Brown in 1955 and later developed by The Loglan Institute. Loglan was originally conceived as a means to examine the influence of language on the speaker's thought (an assumption known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis).

As Brown started to claim his copyright on the language's components, bans were put on the community's activity to stop them changing aspects of the language. In order to circumvent such control, a group of people decided to initiate a separate project, departing from the lexical basis of Loglan and reinventing the whole vocabulary, which led to the current lexicon of Lojban. In effect they established in 1987 The Logical Language Group, based in Washington DC. They also won a trial over whether they could call their version of the language "Loglan".


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