Welcome to the lojban wiki! What is lojban? nelci ⬚ likes ⬚. patfu ⬚ is a father of ⬚. mi nelci do I like you. mi patfu do I'm your father. do nelci ma What do you like? ma nelci mi Who likes me? do patfu ma Who are you a father of? Beauty in the artifice: an introduction to Lojban by : an introduction to Lojban by Ewa a «lightning talk» introduction to Lojban by Timo Paulssen Lojban is a carefully constructed spoken language. It has been built for over 50 years by dozens of workers and hundreds of supporters. Lojban's grammar is based on simple rules, and its linguistic features are inspired by predicate logic.

Lojban allows the expression of nuances in emotion using words called attitudinals, which are like spoken emoticons. ue marks that you're surprised; ba'u marks that you're exaggerating.

marks that you're surprised; marks that you're exaggerating. You can be as vague or detailed as you like when speaking lojban. For example, specifying tense (past, present or future) or number (singular or plural) is optional when they're clear from context.

Lojban is machine parsable, so the syntactic structure and validity of a sentence is unambiguous, and can be analyzed using computer tools.

There is a live community of speakers expanding the lojban vocabulary day by day. Lojban means different things to different people a linguistic curiosity - a test-bed for language experimentation

a challenging way to expand their minds or discipline their thoughts

a new perspective on languages

an entertaining medium to communicate with friends or create art

a domain for exploring the intersection of human language and software What will lojban mean for you?

Official publications

The Complete Lojban Language

'The Complete Lojban Language' book is an official publication by The Logical Language Group and is available in several formats:

This book will help those who already understand some lojban. It's the most complete reference of lojban language by far. It does not, however, teach vocabulary, style, colloquial language or other possible variations of the language.

Related documents

A description of the xorlo reform.

This reform was approved by the Logical Language Group in 2003.

Unofficial methods to learn lojban

These are learning resources that are made by people speaking lojban and that represent personal views of those authors:

Also check out:

the translation of 'Alice in Wonderland' by xorxes with a parallel text in English.

Dictionaries

Connect with the community

«bripre jikca», a community literary vlog

Lojban is spoken by a vibrant community, producing literature, music, and art, and discussing questions about language and thought. The web comic xkcd said that, if you spoke Lojban, you'd have to speak with Lojbanists. That may not be such a bad thing!

Instant messaging (text chat)

Connecting to the chat

Use any of the following messengers (your and others' messages will be available in all of them no matter from which messenger you are sending your questions).

Answers from members of the community will arrive soon.

Telegram

Using this method you will be able to read the history of the chat since the beginning of 2016.

Install the free Telegram messenger on your Apple, Android or your desktop device join main Lojban chat groups by following these links: Ask questions on Lojban in ckule group, talk in or about Lojban in Lojban group and talk only in Lojban in jbosnu group.

Discord

The chat is also connected to a Discord server.

Ask questions on Lojban in #ckule channel, talk in or about Lojban in #lojban channel and talk only in Lojban in #jbosnu channel. Freely chat about anything to like-minded Lojbanists in the #jboselbau channel.

Direct web access

Using this method you will be able to see messages that are sent only while you are connected.

Navigate to , choose a nickname you want yourself to be known as, and click "Start". Easy! Click on the channel you want (tabs on the top of the page), and type your text in the text bar at the bottom - the last line at the bottom of the chat page. Ask questions on Lojban in #ckule tab, talk in or about Lojban in #lojban tab and talk only in Lojban in #jbosnu tab.

You may alternately try other methods of connecting.

Social media

Lojban has a presence on many of the most popular web sites: Facebook, Reddit, Quora.

Mailing lists

The lojban-beginners mailing list is for questions about learning and understanding Lojban. You can subscribe to the list by sending a question to [email protected].

The general-purpose lojban mailing list, which covers anything else related to Lojban, was founded in 1989, and has about 500 subscribers. You can subscribe to it by sending an email to [email protected].

What's next?

Try your hand at translating into Lojban, or write your own original texts: Poetry, prose, blogs, tweets, etc.

Continue learning vocabulary using memorization software.

Help expand the dictionary by translating Lojban words into other languages, or coin new compound words and add them.