Lojban Grammar

Lojban Grammar

Lojban is a constructed, human-speakable and (theoretically) machine-speakable language, based on predicate logic. It is one of the latest languages, designed in 1987 with most of its grammar from Loglan and some features from Láadan. Most of its root words are derived from the 6 widely spoken natural languages, Arabic, Chinese, English, Hindi, Russian, and Spanish. The characteristic regularity, unambiguity, and versatility of Lojban grammar owes much to the fact that its creation followed the development of scientific linguistics and computer programming, the fruits of which Esperanto and Loglan could not have drawn on as their design principles. Its linguistic advantage can be summarized as follows: "Lojban moves beyond the restrictions of European grammar. It overtly incorporates linguistic universals, building in what is needed to support the expressivity of the whole variety of natural languages, including non-European ones."