History: Lojban Etymology

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[http://www.lojban.org/publications/etymology/|This directory] contains various Lojban etymology files, some of which are in a format suitable for analysis by the GLOTTO software written by Jacques Guy <jguy@trl.oz.au>. The file [http://www.lojban.org/publications/etymology/lojban.voc|lojban.voc] contains a list of Lojban gismu in no particular order; the other *.voc files contain the same words in each of the six Lojban source languages. Note that the source-language words are in Lojbanized spelling rather than conventional spelling, which makes them hard to recognize. Furthermore, conventional endings have been chopped off, and affricates ("tc", "dj", "ts", "dz") have generally been reduced to simple spirants ("c", "j", "s", "z" respectively), to prevent bogus mismatches. Thus, for example, the Spanish word "hijo" appears as "ix". The file [http://www.lojban.org/publications/etymology/lojban.icg|lojban.icg] contains the same data, but merged into a single file. The order of words in this file is the same as that in the *.voc files, but the words have been brought together. For each word, the languages are listed in the order Lojban-Chinese-English-Hindi-Spanish-Russian-Arabic. Each word is preceded by the letter "L" if it is Lojban or contributed (score > 0) to the Lojban gismu, or else by the first letter of its language name ("C", "E", "H", "S", "R", or "A") if it made no contribution (score = 0). All of this data was drawn from the file [http://www.lojban.org/publications/etymology/finprims.html|finprims], which contains complete information (with transliterated/transcribed original-language forms) on the Lojban gismu (primitive roots). The original-language representations exist only in hardcopy form, but Mublin has been able to reconstruct most of them, with only a few uncertain or missing etymologies. See [https://www.dealloc.org/~mublin/ Mublin's site]. The file [http://www.lojban.org/publications/etymology/etysample.txt|etysample.txt] contains sample etymologies for a few gismu, and may be used to get the flavor of Lojban etymologizing. In addition, the files [http://www.lojban.org/publications/etymology/langstat.94|langstat.94] and [http://www.lojban.org/publications/etymology/langstat.95|langstat.95] are reports on the number of speakers of various world languages, as of 1994 and 1995. Earlier versions of this data were used to make weighting decisions in gismu construction. The file [http://www.lojban.org/publications/etymology/eaton.zip|eaton.zip] is old Eaton data from an earlier stage of the Loglan Project. Primarily of historical interest, it was an attempt at covering all of the words in Helen Eaton's 1930's list of the most frequently used concepts in 4 European languages. A low priority project is to replace this work with updated Lojban words for each concept. Contact [mailto:lojban@lojban.org|lojban@lojban.org] for further information.

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Sat 15 of Dec, 2012 20:46 GMT zort from 70.29.75.104 Formatted the list nicer.	6		Actions View Source
Sat 29 of Nov, 2008 15:08 GMT arj from 84.38.152.40	5		Actions View Source
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Sat 29 of Nov, 2008 15:02 GMT arj from 84.38.152.40 Added Mublin's original-form etymologies, which would otherwise not appear on Google	3		Actions View Source
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