LOJBAN LANGUAGE

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Lojban is a logical, constructed, human language created by the Logical Language Group which aims to be syntactically unambiguous.
Lojban is proposed as a speakable language for communication between people of different language backgrounds, as a potential means of machine translation, and as a tool to explore the intersection between human language and software.
The name "Lojban" is a compound formed from loj and ban, which are short forms of logji (logic) and bangu (language).
In the next part, let's listen to the beautiful sounds of this language.
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[@liliumastrale]

This sounds really good! For some reason I expected it to not sound very aesthetic, but they did a great job constructing this!

[@tashriqhabib1501]

It sounds really beautiful

[@chadparalosamigos1887]

It's cringe

[@minecraftthelostorder5782]

the words stedu, kerlo, and terfi (head, ear, and earth respectively) sound more as /stadu/, /karlo/, and /tarfi/... Or it is because of your slavic (maybe) accent, or it may be a funny Lojban dialect :)

[@korvaamiko66]

I wondered about that. The grammar books give some allowable variation in how a word is pronounced. There is some move to use alternative writing systems, so as not to have interjection of another language into lojban. As a native English speaker, my natural inclination is to view a written word in an English context. It doesn't always work, as English doesn't have a phonetic system of writing.

[@etruscanetwork]

Out of all languages on this planet (including both natural languages and conlangs) I think lojban is the most beautiful language ever

[@BambolaSgarbie]

Perhaps too much H sound. Why don't they write H sound as "h" letter? However interesting language.

[@your_opponent]

because h is not considered as a consonant gramatically in this language. (mostly used for insertion between vowels.)

[@korvaamiko66]

That is explained in either the 'complete lojban' grammar book, or the 'incomplete lojban' grammar book. its pretty technical. I wondered the same thing, but there is one thing which is really nice, when doing a search for a small word like this, it makes it easier to find this short words which contain the " ' " in them. Otherwise, one will result in like 9,876 hits on a page, because an english text addressing lojban will have words with smaller subunits that contain 'h'. I am not sure if that was the intention or not, but I think it really helps!

[@alphacentauri8598]

I wonder what natural (non-constructed) language Lojban sounds closest to

[@alphacentauri8598]

Is it me or does it have Portuguese vibes to it

[@evermay1582]

I dare to say it sounds quite like either Albanian or one of the Native American languages when one's not paying attention.

[@yeraninunes3181]

​@alphacentauri8598 Portuguese speaker here. It doesn't sound like Portuguese at all 😂 You can notice a few words with Latin background though, like sun and moon. To me, this sounds something based in languages from Central Asia but I might also have no clue about what I'm saying 😂😂😂

[@karinasafira2645]

​@@yeraninunes3181I have same point on you

[@liliumastrale]

@@yeraninunes3181 From what I understand it's meant to be culturally neutral, but I'm sure there are some similarities with Indo-European languages that found their way in subconsciously.

[@CrysolasChymera2117]

It sounds half slavic half austronesian 😂😂

[@Shiratsuyu1423]

Serbian + Hawaiian

[@chuck0842]

Indo-Austronesian confirmed?????

[@devasdin3207]

@@chuck0842not confirmed

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

as an indonesian javanese its nowhere near austronesian.

[@CyberAnarchist2077]

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 It's nowhere near slavic also

[@Davlavi]

Very cool thanks.

[@oliverspiler9101]

Sounds like Ladino with Basque and Georgian influence, maybe with a slavic word or two as well

[@nuqjatrh]

Since the description of this particular language at the start of the vid still *baffles* me, could anyone describe or give a summary of Loglan / Lojban in Layman's term please? 🤔

[@liliumastrale]

My understanding is that one of the main goals was to construct a language that is as logical and un-ambiguous as possible. I think that means like, whenever you make a statement there should only be one way to understand it, instead of how in natural languages there are often more than one way to interpret a statement based on context, intonation, etc. Logical languages are also supposed to be "based on formal logic," but I don't quite understand what that means. I think it might just mean having words and structures built into the language to easily express logical statements, which might be cumbersome in natural languages. Like, in English there really isn't any basic vocab to distinguish 'inclusive or' and 'exclusive or,' but I would assume in Logban and Lojban each of those concepts have a single basic word.

[@nuqjatrh]

@@liliumastrale thanks pal 💯

[@CrysolasChymera2117]

​@@liliumastraleI have studied Philosophy, Formal Logic is a branch from Arithmetics, Mathematics and philosophy that basically is in simple terms like a science in the broad term, or an academic field that has as objective trying to understand reasoning and understanding as things that accomplish a set of rules, those RULES are called in day-to-day language: common sense, but when we try to bring that common sense to a Formal and Academic context and we try to create a system of pure symbols and pure ideas to identify meaning, that's what we call formal logic, basically is what allows you to understand that A equals A, and A does not equal B, because B equals B. When6you read it, it might sound obvious, bit that's the simple part, it grows and grows and grows bigger 😂 take Aristotles Logic and you'll see. Take care!

[@ignoblesurfer6281]

An interesting academic exercise in machine translation-friendliness but one that can't overcome the ambiguity of existing languages. For example, it can easily differentiate son and sun in English; it can't, however, extend that to metaphor.

[@nuqjatrh]

@@ignoblesurfer6281 appreciate your comment ✊🏾

[@SajaStoica]

Can you do a video on Lingua Franca Nova (Elefen)?

[@antonkostenko5693]

afroasiatic vibes

[@martaaaa5838]

me parece un idioma muy interesante

[@AlhazredGL]

With this language we could not only speak with machines, but also with aliens.

[@andrewtheworldcitizen]

It is clearly based on the Indo-European languages..... The whole rhythm and cadence of the language and the phonology resemble a Slavic language, maybe mixed with German and English, and even a little Persian..... You can see that most of the vocabulary is an imitation of words taken from various Indo-European languages.... It sounds like Czech and Portuguese and German and Persian put in a blender.....😂😂 But I can also hear how in some parts it does sow a lot like Classical Arabic and Biblical Hebrew, as well.....

[@Hun_Uinaq]

Sounds kind of Middle Eastern and kind of Central Asian. Somewhere in that sprachbund.

[@P3rf3c7B0y]

A video on Лингуа Франка Нова (lfn) please.

[@shanadev]

Toki pona next?

[@tizgerard_9816]

To me that sounds kinda like a Turkish language , with some hints of Iranic in it. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[@mollylizabeth]

Just you

[@andrewtheworldcitizen]

It doesn't anything like Turkish 😂😂 Yes, Persian somewhat..... I think it sounds so much like Portuguese, mixed with a Slavic language like Russian or Czech, and some Arabic phonetics and rhythm.....

[@rikusoma4539]

​@@andrewtheworldcitizenI am Brazilian, and Lojban sounds 0% portuguese to me, for me it has some words from slavic and polynesian.

[@person-yu8cu]

for a conlang it sounds somewhat natural. doesn't sound anything as beautiful as uralic and turkic languages, though.

[@easternwind4435]

Turkic languages aren't beautiful at all to my ear

[@karinasafira2645]

Would you make the comparison of Proto-Malayo with Proto-Austronesian, please?

[@zlo1331c]

Sound like slavic.

[@notHere132]

I want to make an evolved version of Old English with lojban grammar, but DAMN, I am having a hard time understanding lojban grammar

[@prismoid00]

What is meant by "syntactically unambiguous"?

[@nyko921]

It works like a programming language, it has a very unintuitive grammar, syntax etc. so to eliminate any possible misunderstandings of sentences

[@lagerku.3137]

In essence, there wouldn't be any instances where, say, *_"A man changes the clock on the table."_* Is the man on the table or the clock? That's one type of example of syntactic ambiguity.

[@prismoid00]

@@lagerku.3137 thanks!

[@korvaamiko66]

​@@lagerku.3137 How would one restate these into lojban?

[@vikkyvandy]

please do toki pona!!

[@ilovelanguages0124]

I need a volunteer! :)

[@anthonymccarthy6688]

@@ilovelanguages0124 there are a lot, on reddit, discord ....

[@kirilvelinov7774]

My language is similar to Lojban: ABCDEGHIKLMNOPSTUY 18 letters Numbers:pa,le,ci,bo,mu,ha,ye,bi,so,pano Sample text: niho le cpiltloglodite baho se ydani lo kalcidihu i le lilni cu suho loi ki cliba bopli te yuhe lo nu cpacu loi cidya se bahu lo panyi goi koha kei gihe deha kansa koha ... i ba bo kohe bopli hlukla lo li ydani i baho bo kohe cusku lu uo dai doi panyi i mi mohu ctuca ta i ohu li na ba hlukla lihu paho

[@rocsafaitdesvideos8828]

Les francophones pendant cette vidéo 🇫🇷 : 😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️

[@The_name105]

Why y'all not know how pronounce ʔ ?

[@xkevin0]

and how is it pronounced?

[@etruscanetwork]

​@@xkevin0It's pronounced like this:

[@rizalsandy]

Li'u

[@andrewtheworldcitizen]

It sounds very Portuguese!! Someone put Portuguese, German, Russian and Classical Arabic in a blender.....😂😂😂

[@TheCorazonPawprint]

I speak Portuguese, it doesn't sound Portuguese at all.

[@andrewtheworldcitizen]

@TheCorazonPawprint Hahaha 😂😂😂 It's funny how fast that triggered you.... lol I never said that the language was like Portuguese.... I said that it sounds somewhat like Portuguese.... well, because it does....! You don't know what your language sounds like to someone who doesn't speak it, do you?? And yes, it sounds VERY similar to this..... It most certainly doesn't sound like Spanish..... Portuguese sounds similar to Russian..... I know that it's a Romance language, very closely related to Spanish and French, and it's not a Slavic language..... but the phonetics of the language, the accent and the pronunciation, when spoken fast, is often mistaken by foreigners for Russian..... Listen to this again, and now you know what the world hears when you speak your language fast......😂😂😂

[@korvaamiko66]

Its 'malgli' to compare lojban to any other language.

[@wasolaso1840]

It sounds like Simlish to me

[@yangoose]

First to comment!

[@المرتدالفخور]

So this language is like Esperanto?

[@chickenstrangler3826]

In that they're constructed? Yes. That's where commonality stops. So no, not similar languages.

[@korvaamiko66]

@@chickenstrangler3826 yes, the grammar is so different from Esperanto