History: Lojban

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 both science fiction and computer publications. 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.

Learn Lojban now or read the introductory brochure for more 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

1 August 2009 jbotcan, the lojbanic channel, is back up. It features anonymous imageboards, an rss feed that collects news from all over and more goodies! Be sure to check it out!

21 September 2008 The 2009 Lojban Festival is proposed for Penguicon, May 1 through 3, right near Detroit Metro airport in Michigan! We need to get large enough to grant a reduced group-rate, so sign up hereto express interest.

13 March 2008 la xris and la timos started a new project! Learn one new word every day by reading the blog at http://valsi.blogspot.com. There is also an atom feed availabe.

14 May 2007 - Today, Timo and Cizra released their animation short lai citno melbi pinpedi. You can watch it on Google Video now! If that title sounds familiar, you may have seen this comic stripbefore.

In other news, the same Timo has been busy creating Jbobac, a Lojbanic audio board that anyone can post to. Just point your browser to http://jbobac.lojban.org/, and join the action!

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