| 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[1] |
| Purpose | |
| Primarily Latin, others available | |
| Sources | Loglan |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | jbo |
| ISO 639-3 | jbo |
| Glottolog | lojb1234 |
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.
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."[2]
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.[3]
- ^ "The number of Lojbanists who can sustain a conversation in the language certainly ranges beyond what can be counted on the fingers of one hand"
-"Chapter 1. Questions and Answers on Lojban". Lojban website. Retrieved 2023-11-16. - ^ "Questions Answered: Invented Languages". The New York Times Schott's Vocab blog. March 10, 2010. Archived from the original on April 27, 2021. Retrieved March 15, 2010.
- ^ "Welcome!/en - La Lojban". mw.lojban.org. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-08-18.