History: Lojban

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Lojban 25th Anniversary celebration, 2013, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
Lojban 25th Anniversary celebration, 2013, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
Lojban is a carefully constructed spoken language designed in the hope of removing a large portion of the ambiguity from human communication. It was made well-known by a Scientific American article and references in science fiction Lojban has been built over five decades by dozens of workers and hundreds of supporters.


Lojban has a number of features which make it unique:

  • Lojban is designed to be used by people in communication with each other, and possibly in the future with computers.
  • Lojban is designed to be culturally neutral.
  • Lojban has an unambiguous grammar, which is based on the principles of logic.
  • Lojban has phonetic spelling, and unambiguous resolution of sounds into words.
  • Lojban is simple compared to natural languages; it is easy to learn.
  • Lojban's 1300 root words can be easily combined to form a vocabulary of millions of words.
  • Lojban is regular; the rules of the language are without exception.
  • Lojban attempts to remove restrictions on creative and clear thought and communication.
  • Lojban has a variety of uses, ranging from the creative to the scientific, from the theoretical to the practical.


Interested? See and hear an example of spoken Lojban. You can also see this page written in Lojban.

Learn Lojban now or read the introductory brochure for a more detailed description of Lojban.

The Logical Language Group


This site is the official repository of materials from The Logical Language Group (LLG), the non-profit corporation which has led Lojban development since 1987.

As part of the LLG's commitment to the community, this site attempts to reflect a cross section of the Lojban community outside of the LLG. Some of the material on this site isn't officially sanctioned, but what is official is explicitly stated.

News

  • 15 November 2014 "bripre jikca 9", the tenth and final episode of "bripre jikca", is now available. The theme is {skari} ("color") and it includes texts by keidji, niftg, mukti, xorxes, and junpen on that topic, as well as readings by mizu'e and durka42.
  • 3 November 2014 The 2014 annual member's meeting of The Logical Language Group convenes on November 3. The meeting will be conducted on the llg-members mailing list with at least one IRC session to be announced. Please respond to the announcement on the lojban-list if you do not currently have access to llg-members, but you wish to observe or participate in the meeting. The agenda includes a clarification of bylaw amendments that were approved at the 2003 meeting and a discussion of baseline policies.
  • 31 October 2014 "bripre jikca 8", the ninth episode of "bripre jikca", is now available. The theme is {fulta} ("floating") and it includes chef mankant's recipe for a floating island, and texts on that subject from durka42 and niftg. Submissions are requested by November 8 for the next episode (theme: {skari} — "color"), to be published November 15. bripre and mankant are taking a well deserved vacation, so this will be the last episode for the time being.
  • 18 October 2014 "bripre jikca 7", the eigth episode of "bripre jikca", is now available. The theme is {santa} ("umbrella") and it includes texts on that subject from graywyvern, lojytan, niftg, durka42 and mukti. Submissions are requested by October 25 for the next episode (theme: {fulta} — "floating"), to be published November 1.
  • 6 October 2014 "lo jbobau cu mo", a new "jbo-rap" by selpa'i, featuring danr, Ilmen, and durka42 is released. It is described as a "commentary on the current situation in 'Lojbanistan'" and "a call to action."
  • 4 October 2014 "bripre jikca 6", the seventh episode of "bripre jikca", is now available. The theme is {xutla} ("smooth/silky/soft") and it includes texts on that subject from niftg, junpen and ilmen. Submissions are requested by October 11 for the next episode (theme: {santa} — "umbrella"), to be published October 18.
  • 27 September 2014 Martin Bays releases tersmu 0.2, a "semantic parser" for lojban, implemented in Haskell. It transforms lojban input into expressions of first order logic.
  • 22 September 2014 Robin Lee Powell announces progress on the forthcoming update of "The Complete Lojban Language", and asks for volunteers to help prepare it for print.
  • 20 September 2014 "bripre jikca 5", the sixth episode of "bripre jikca", is now available. The theme is {bajra} ("to run") and it includes a text on that subject from niftg, a translation of XKCD, animated and read by durka, and an eleatic footrace between mankant and the "dog". Submissions are requested by September 27 for the next episode (theme: {xutla} — "smooth/silky/soft"), to be published October 4.
  • 5 September 2014 "bripre jikca 4", the fifth episode of "bripre jikca", is now available. The theme is {kukte} ("delicious/delightful") and it includes texts on that subject from niftg, durka, tsani, mukti, and junpen, and a reading by selpa'i. Submissions are requested by September 13 for the next episode (theme: {bajra} — "run"), to be published September 20.

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Sun 29 of Mar, 2015 19:08 GMT mukti from 100.33.73.219 fix links 296
Sun 29 of Mar, 2015 19:04 GMT mukti from 100.33.73.219 BPFK News 295
Sun 15 of Feb, 2015 14:28 GMT mukti from 100.33.73.219 15 February 2015: Progress on review of Prince PDF CLL 294
Sat 17 of Jan, 2015 17:53 GMT mukti from 100.33.73.219 January 18 IRC session of 2014 Annual Meeting 293
Sat 10 of Jan, 2015 19:10 GMT mukti from 100.33.73.219 Board of election results 292
Tue 16 of Dec, 2014 05:07 GMT mukti from 108.176.19.20 New members of LLG admitted 291
Sat 15 of Nov, 2014 20:02 GMT mukti from 190.22.147.161 290
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Mon 03 of Nov, 2014 00:35 GMT mukti from 201.213.118.150 November 3: 2014 Annual Meeting announcement 286
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Sat 18 of Oct, 2014 21:04 GMT mukti from 201.213.118.150 Reorder, 3:2 lojban-list:bpfk-list 281
Sat 18 of Oct, 2014 21:02 GMT mukti from 201.213.118.150 Re-order feeds 280
Sat 18 of Oct, 2014 20:55 GMT mukti from 201.213.118.150 Fix jbovlaste feed 279
Sat 18 of Oct, 2014 20:15 GMT mukti from 201.213.118.150 Add BPFK, jbovlaste feeds 278
Sat 18 of Oct, 2014 13:20 GMT mukti from 201.213.118.150 bripre jikca 7 277
Sun 12 of Oct, 2014 20:03 GMT mukti from 200.111.121.155 Fix typo: {xutla} 276
Tue 07 of Oct, 2014 01:11 GMT mukti from 190.47.99.147 October 6, 2014: "lo jbobau cu mo" 275
Sun 05 of Oct, 2014 02:21 GMT mukti from 190.47.99.147 Added news items for tersmu, CLL 274
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Sun 20 of Jul, 2014 17:31 GMT mukti from 68.116.51.210 july 2: bripre jikca 1 265
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Sat 14 of Jun, 2014 15:06 GMT mukti from 24.90.95.13 Remove jbovlaste atom -- not compatible 263
Sat 14 of Jun, 2014 15:03 GMT mukti from 24.90.95.13 Add jbovlaste feed 262
Tue 10 of Jun, 2014 04:47 GMT mukti from 68.173.146.212 Expire news > 1 year old 261
Tue 03 of Jun, 2014 14:48 GMT mukti from 68.173.146.212 Updated front page image, using picture from banseljaj of 25th Anniversary celebration 260
Fri 23 of May, 2014 09:39 GMT mukti from 68.173.146.212 Updated feeds as "Lojban on the Internet" 259
Tue 06 of May, 2014 06:14 GMT mukti from 68.173.146.212 Updated news to include events of past year 258
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