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Lojban Linguistic Resources

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https://lojban.pw

A collection of Lojban language learning materials and linguistic references. It includes a dictionary with examples, a formal type system for gismu place structures, the Muplis database phrase list, and a structured instructional book for beginners. The site also features a wide array of multilingual parallel texts, including translations of Alice in Wonderland, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, and various poems and stories in Lojban, English, and other languages.

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What's inside Lojban

  1. Overview of the Gua\spi language design

    Gua\spi is an artificial natural language designed for efficient use by both humans and artificial intelligence. It aims to minimize the effort required to map letters to meanings, making it suitable for simple parsing (e.g., via Prolog). Key characteristics include:

    • Simplicity: A formal syntax significantly smaller than English, with approximately 1,400 content words and only eight classes of structure words.
    • Modularity: Morphology, grammar, organization, and semantics are defined separately.
    • Completeness: Uses agglutination to represent most meanings not tied to specific cultures.
    • Unambiguity: Features a one-sound-per-letter and one-meaning-per-word mapping, ensuring every valid utterance has only one parse.

  2. Overview of Lojban language design goals

    Lojban is designed as a language for describing knowledge and serving as a bridge between spoken languages, programming languages, and the languages of science and mathematics. A core technical goal of the language is to maintain syntactically unambiguous constructions.

  3. Overview of Lojban language features

    Lojban is a constructed language based on the principles of predicate logic, designed for human-to-human and potentially human-to-computer communication. Key characteristics include:

    • Culture Neutrality: Designed to be neutral between cultures.
    • Unambiguous Grammar: Features a flexible yet unambiguous grammar with no exceptions (regular).
    • Phonetic Consistency: Uses phonetic spelling and unambiguously resolves sounds into words.
    • Vocabulary: Built from approximately 1,300 root words that can be combined to create millions of words.
    • Simplicity: Designed to be easier to learn than natural languages and to remove restrictions on clear thought and communication.

  4. Overview of Lojban learning resources

    Lojban is a spoken logical language created in 1987. For those looking to learn or reference the language, the following primary resources are available:

    • Learn Lojban Course: A course teaching the language from its formal foundations using simple terms and usage examples.
    • The Complete Lojban Language (Unofficial Book): An updated version of the 1997 original, correcting typos and contradictions while adding new content (October 2022 edition).
    • Lensisku: A live Lojban dictionary featuring flashcard-style courses, semantic search (searching by meaning rather than just word form), and discussion threads on definitions.
    • Community Chat: Live Lojban communication is available via Discord and Telegram.

  5. Introduction to First Steps in Lojban (Hajiloji 2)

    First Steps in Lojban (an English adaptation of the Japanese course 'Hajiloji 2' by cogas) is an introductory course designed for a 'big picture' approach. It focuses on getting users to start speaking and writing Lojban quickly by prioritizing de facto standard usage—such as ASCII characters and Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) word order—rather than exhaustive theoretical detail.

  6. Overview of Lojban language resources

    Lojban is a constructed logical spoken language created in 1987. For those looking to learn or reference the language, several unofficial free resources are available, including formal courses, comprehensive grammar books, and community-driven dictionaries.

  7. Overview of -gua!spi language design

    -gua!spi is a language designed as a technical evolution of Loglan and Lojban to address usability problems. It aims for extreme simplicity in morphology and grammar to facilitate machine analysis and parsing.

  8. Overview of the Gua\spi artificial language

    Gua\spi is an artificial natural language designed for both humans and machines, emphasizing simplicity, efficiency, and modularity. It uses a small vocabulary (approximately 1400 content words) and a formal syntax that allows every valid utterance to be parsed in only one way. Meanings are defined through predicate calculus, making the language suitable for representation and manipulation by computer programs. It is inspired by Loglan but further simplified in its deep structures.

  9. Overview of Gua\spi as an Artificial Natural Language

    Gua\spi is an artificial natural language designed to bridge the gap between human communication and machine semantic analysis. It features a simpler phonology and morphology than typical natural languages, making it suitable for automatic speech recognition and semantic analysis. The language is designed for precision, providing clearer connections between sentence parts than English, and is intended to be compatible with the data representations used in fifth-generation programming languages.

  10. Overview of Gua\spi TeX documents and miscellaneous files

    The Gua\spi project contains a collection of TeX documents and miscellaneous files mirrored from the original source. These files include design notes, language complaint forms, and specific technical macros for document processing.

  11. Overview of Lojban language features

    Lojban is a constructed language based on predicate logic, designed to be culturally neutral and unambiguous. Key technical characteristics include:

    • Grammar: Based on predicate logic with an unambiguous, flexible, and regular grammar (no exceptions).
    • Phonetics: Uses phonetic spelling with unambiguous resolution of sounds into words.
    • Vocabulary: Approximately 1,300 root words that can be combined to form millions of words.
    • Purpose: Designed for human-to-human communication and potential future human-to-computer communication.

  12. Overview of the Gua\spi artificial language

    Gua\spi is an artificial natural language designed to be significantly simpler than English in both vocabulary (approx. 1400 content words) and grammar. It is designed for efficient use by both humans and artificial intelligences, ensuring that every valid utterance has a single, unambiguous parse. Its structure is modular, separating morphology, grammar, organization, semantics, and vocabulary.