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Community Translations

• The Texts in Lojban page may contain some group translations.
• The Lojban CVS Server holds a fair bit of current community-based translations.
• The Tao Te Ching.
• The American Declaration of Independence.
• A group translation of Kahlil Gibran's TheProphet.

Automated Translation Results

These are automated lojban-only versions of things being worked on in
cvs. Generated about once every 2 hours.

• Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
• The Christian Bible
• Old lojban.org Page Translations

Short Stories

• A translation of the short story Little Things, by Raymond Carver
• Two translations of "The Book", by H. P. Lovecraft: tu'a le cukta (done by Jordan DeLong), and My version of 'The Book' (by Michael Helsem).
• Translation done by Jordan DeLong of "The man and the Snake", by Ambrose Bierce: le nanmu kujo'u le since

Poems

• Poem by Federico Garca Lorca translated by xorxes from Spanish xirli'u selsanga

Children's rhymes and songs

• da pu laldo ninmu co tunlo le sfani
• The Song That Never Ends
• The Itsy Bitsy Spider
• Old MacDonald
• le cmalu bloti
• da kevna le baktu
• doi daiz.

Lullabies

• senva lo melbi

Non-fiction

• A translation of The Gateless Gate

Games

• Broken Phone
• la cibyska
• Lojban Scrabble
• MMORPG

Math

• Robin Lee Powell is working on a translation of the Feynman Lectures on Computation called ctununta'a la feinman fi lo nu kanji

Odds and ends

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• the fable carvi ("Rain").
• An attempt at translating Hamlet
• A translation of the Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, from the book Dune by Frank Herbert.
• Conlang Test Sentences
• Larry Wall's Perl the first postmodern programming language
• A translation of "All your base are belong to us" AllYourBase
• The Legend Of Zelda
• Carmina Lojbana
• le pluta po'u le mleca se litru
• Single Transferrable Vote
• Elvish rosetta stone
• niall and elizas
• talks

Various Short Translations

These are all a bit older.

• A translation by John Cowan of the children's book "Tikki-Tikki Tembo". Easy text.
• Some fables by Aesop, translated from the Greek. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• A translation of the first page of a higher algebra text. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• A few lines from Beowulf: an attempt to preserve the semantic and syntactic devices of the original. Tr. John Cowan.
• A Greek folk tale. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• Another Greek folk tale. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• The Nicene creed, a major Christian statement of faith, from the Greek. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• Short story by Lucian of Samosata, 2nd-century Greek author. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• Part of a book by Freddy Germanos, modern Greek journalist. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• Song "The Merryman & His Maid", aka "I Have A Song To Sing, O!" from the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta Yeomen of the Guard. Tr. Lojbab.
• Creation story from the Hebrew Bible. Tr. Mark Shoulson.
• "On A Bitter Occasion", by Kalman Kalocsay, Esperanto poet. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• A Roman legend, composed in Polish by Orzekso, translated into Esperanto by Kabe. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• Translation of an Esperanto translation of a Lithuanian/Polish folk song. The Esperanto version appeared in the Esperanto Fundamental Chrestomathy in 1905. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• A prosaic version of the Lord's Prayer from the New Testament. From the English, corrected by reference to the Greek. Tr. Lojbab.
• Martin Luther King's famous "I Have A Dream" speech. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• Several very short Chinese folk tales. Tr. Preston Maxwell, rev. Nick Nicholas.
• A poem by Soviet Esperantist Evgeny Mikhalski. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• "The Mildew of the World", written in Polish by Boleslaw Prus, translated into Esperanto by Kabe. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• A self-referential story by David Moser, printed in Douglas Hofstadter's column and book Metamagical Themas. Every sentence refers to itself, including the title, which is "This is the title of the story, which is repeated several times in the story itself." Perfect for Lojban. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• The well-known story "North Wind And Sun". This has been translated into hundreds of languages. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• The first few paragraphs of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death". Tr. Jorge LLambias.
• An interview by Freddy Germanos of Ringo Starr, presumably conducted in English, but published in Greek. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• A text by Ralph Roughton, origin unknown. Tr. Colin Fine.
• from "Greek Mythology" by modern Greek humorist and slang devotee Nikos Tsiforos. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• A single paragraph by scientist/writer Lancelot Law Whyte. Contains English original, Lojban translation, word-by-word gloss, and a word-by- word gloss of a 1977 Loglan version by J.R. Atkins, showing the different styles of tanru in effect at that time. Tr. Nick Nicholas.
• Lyric from a Suzanne Vega song, "Words". Tr. Lojbab, with commentary based on Nick Nicholas's translation of the same poem into other artificial languages. Also available in TeX format.