Links to Useful Lojban Resources
The following is a list of links to major and/or noteworthy Lojban resources beyond just lojban.org. If you know of any useful sites that I overlooked, let me know.
velcilre (Tutorials)
- Lojban for Beginners — a very excellent introduction to Lojban, covering everything from pronunciation to sumti raising
- What is Lojban? — a rather technical & fast-paced introduction to the language
- How to Use xorlo — an overview of the BPFK's changes to the meanings of the gadri
- xractu — a pictorial introduction to Lojban intended to be understandable to speakers of any language; as of 14 March 2009, it is still under development
- The Lojban Wikibook — still very much a work in progress
- (Information on) Lojban lessons on Google Wave
vlaste (Word Lists)
- The official Lojban word lists for gismu and cmavo, along with some lujvo lists
- jbovlaste — a system for users to maintain & contribute to the Lojban word lists, containing numerous lujvo and fu'ivla along with translations of the word lists into other languages
- A PostgreSQL dump of jbovlaste updated by a script once a day
- vlasisku.lojban.org — a fancy listing of the words in jbovlaste by grammatical & morphological categories
- A PDF version of (most of) the English-Lojban portions of jbovlaste
- A compact reference sheet of practically all of Lojban, including gismu, rafsi, cmavo (in alphabetical order, by selma'o, and in the tables from the CLL), the BNF grammar, and English-to-Lojban translations. This PDF was found on this page.
- Terminology — an attempt at creating lujvo & fu'ivla necessary for conversing on various topics
- la selsnu gidva (conversation guide) — a group effort at listing & creating Lojban words for common things & concepts needed to carry on everyday non-trivial conversations
- Cultural fu'ivla — an attempt at creating fu'ivla for all of the cultures, languages, nations, continents, & ideologies of the world
- Vlasisku — a web page for searching the official gismu & cmavo lists. Unlike jbovlaste, it's possible to search the entire text of definitions.
gerna (Grammar)
- The Lojban Reference Grammar — the official Lojban grammar available for free online
- The Complete Lojban Language — the Lojban Reference Grammar in book form, if you prefer to read things that way; also available on Amazon
- Complete Lojban Language Chunked — the HTML version of the Lojban Reference Grammar, with each section given its own page for ease of online reading
- The official Lojban parser in source code form
- camxes — a PEG-based parser for Lojban written in Java
- An annotated form of the PEG (Parsing Expression Grammar) used by camxes
- jbofi'e — a popular Lojban parser & glosser
- jboski — a web interface to the jbofi'e parser
- Another web interface to jbofi'e
- LojGloss — yet another Lojban parser & glosser
- zirsam — a Lojban parser written in Python 3.0
snustu (Places of Discussion)
- A (complete?) list of all major & semi-major places of Lojbanic discussion
- Lojban Google Group — the current incarnation of the Lojban mailing list and the primary place of Lojban discussion
- Lojban Beginners Google Group — the primary place of discussion for budding Lojbanists
- jbotcan — Lojban forums, along with links to a bunch of other Lojban resources
- #lojban — an IRC channel on Freenode devoted to Lojban
- #jbosnu — an IRC channel in which only Lojban (no English or other rarbau) is spoken
- Lojban IRC logs
jbocitri (Lojban History)
- A timeline of major events in the history of Loglan & Lojban
- A somewhat more in-depth companion to the above timeline
- The Loglan-Lojban Dispute — how the two languages came to be separated
- The Great Rafsi Reallocation — about the Reallocation, including a comparison of the rafsi before & after the change
- Lojban etymology — a reconstruction of the natural language words from which the gismu were derived (scroll down)
jboci'aci'e (Lojban Orthographies)
- srilermorna — a cursive orthography by Lakmir
- saplermorna — an abandoned simplified form of srilermorna by Lakmir, preferred by at least one jbopre
- zbalermorna — a vowel-diacritic orthography also designed by Lakmir
- Various resources on la .tenguar., a Lojban mapping of J. R. R. Tolkien's Tengwar orthography for the elven tongues
vrici (Miscellanea)
- A large number of links to texts translated into Lojban and a few original works in Lojban
- The Lojban Corpus — an attempt at collecting every single piece of extant Lojban text into one archive
- Lojban File Server Roadmap — a listing of the various (mostly historical) documents squirreled away on the Lojban web server, together comprising a treasure trove of Lojban resources
- More Lojban links — some of them are outdated, but the rest are still deserving of attention
- jboselkei — in which users translate random short texts into Lojban and evaluate each others' translations
- Planet Lojban — an aggregation of various Lojban-related feeds
- la .uikipedias. — the Lojban version of Wikipedia
- Jvozba — a web page for making tanru into lujvo and splitting lujvo back up into tanru
- The pre-tiki Lojban website, which some may prefer
- The Lojban Coder's Group on GitHub, containing forks of a majority of the Lojban projects on GitHub