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# Lojban

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[The Logical Language Group]? created the artificial language Lojban in [1987?] based on the earlier Loglan, with the intent to make the language more complete, usable, and freely available. The language itself shares many of the features and goals of Loglan; in particular:

- The grammar is based on predicate logic, and is capable of expressing complex logical constructs precisely.
- It has no irregularities or ambiguities in spelling or grammar, so it can be easily parsed by computer.
- Lojban is designed to be as culturally neutral as possible.
- It is, nonetheless, simple to learn and use compared to many natural languages.

While the initial goal of the Loglan project was to investigate the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, the active Lojban community has additional goals for the language, including:

- General research into linguistics.
- Research in artificial intelligence and machine understanding.
- Improved human-computer communication, storage ontologies, and computer translation of natural language text.
- Use of language as an educational tool.
- Personal creativity.

### Links

- [The Logical Language Group home page]
- [Lojban wiki]

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