Lojban
Lojban (pronounced [ˈloʒban] ⓘ) is a logical, constructed, human language created by the Logical Language Group which aims to be syntactically unambiguous. It succeeds the Loglan project.
| Lojban | |
|---|---|
| la .lojban. | |
| Pronunciation | [laʔ ˈloʒbanʔ] |
| Created by | Logical Language Group |
| Date | 1987 |
| Setting and usage | a logically engineered language for various usages |
| Users | 5+ |
| Purpose | |
| Primarily Latin, others available | |
| Sources | Loglan |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | jbo |
| ISO 639-3 | jbo |
| Glottolog | lojb1234 |
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 for communication between people of different language backgrounds, as a potential means of machine translation, and as a tool to explore the intersection between human language and software.