.i la lojban mo Lojban is in many ways like any other language. There's an
English-Lojban dictionary. There's a Lojban
grammar. You can even get your news at
Nuzban, a Lojban-only news site.
Lojban, however, is a
completely constructed language.
Why Lojban? Well, Lojban came from
Loglan, an invented language from the 1950's (Loglan was created as an experiment to study the
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: succinctly, the idea that language and culture are hopelessly intertwined) Today, there are
hundreds of invented languages and a thriving language construction
community. Alongside well-known constructs such as Tolkien's
elven languages and
Klingon, there's also
d'ni - the language of Myst, a
language of flowers,
opus-2 - a language that shuns word order and
Teonat - a language of the imaginary inhabitants of Teon.
With the help of online language construction kits, you too can
create your
own language.
posted by vacapinta
on Sep 12, 2002 -
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