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Lojban
Lojban (pronounced ) is a Logical language, logical, constructed language, constructed, human language created by the Logical Language Group which aims to be Syntactic ambiguity, 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." Lojban is proposed as a speakable language for communication between people of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Land Of Invented Languages
''In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers who Tried to Build a Perfect Language'' is a 2009 non-fiction book by linguist Arika Okrent about the history and culture of constructed languages, or conlangs, languages created by individuals. Okrent explores the motivations for creating a language, the challenges faced by such projects, and the outcomes of a number of high-profile conlangs. The book revolves around six conlangs: John Wilkins' unnamed 'An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language, philosophical language', Esperanto, Blissymbols, Loglan and its descendant Lojban, and the Klingon language designed for the ''Star Trek'' universe. Okrent describes her personal experiences learning and interacting with these languages and their speakers, and provides historical and linguistic analyses of their structures and features. ''In the Land of Invented Languages'' was published by Spiegel & Grau, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
