John Woldemar Cowan

“ Lojban has phonetic spelling, and unambiguously resolves its sounds into words. Lojban is simple compared to natural languages; it is easy to learn. Lojban’s 1300 root words can be easily combined to form a vocabulary of millions of words. Lojban is regular; the rules of the language are without exceptions. Lojban attempts to remove restrictions on creative and clear thought and communication. Lojban has a variety of uses, ranging from the creative to the scientific, from the theoretical to the practical. Lojban has been demonstrated in translation and in original works of prose and poetry. ”

“ Instead, language change will take place in the form of new vocabulary — Lojban does not yet have nearly the vocabulary it needs to be a fully usable language of the modern world, as Chapter 12 explains — and through the irregular natural processes of drift and (who knows?) native-speaker evolution. (Teach your children Lojban!) You can learn the language described here with assurance that (unlike previous versions of Lojban and Loglan, as well as most other artificial languages) it will not be subject to further fiddling by language-meisters. ”

“ Made well-known by that article and by occasional references in science fiction (most notably in Robert Heinlein’s novel The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress) and computer publications, Loglan and Lojban have been built over four decades by dozens of workers and hundreds of supporters, led since 1987 by The Logical Language Group (who are the publishers of this book) .
There are thousands of artificial languages (of which Esperanto is the best-known) , but Loglan/Lojban has been engineered to make it unique in several ways. ”