Lojban: A Complete Course in the Logical Language — From Alphabet to A2

Lojban - a language built on logic, taught from zero. Lojban is a constructed language with a fully specified, exception-free grammar - designed to be unambiguous, culturally neutral, and speakable. This is a complete self-study course, from the alphabet to the end of A2, for English speakers who have never seen it before. What makes this course different: Lojban has no irregular verbs, no genders, and no exceptions - what you learn in Unit 1 is still true in Unit 24. And every Lojban word in this book was checked against the official public-domain dictionary before it was used. Inside the book: - The alphabet and pronunciation, from scratch - Lojban is spelled exactly as it sounds - 24 graded units, each with a dialogue, vocabulary, clear grammar, exercises and a self-test - The real engine of the language: place structure, tanru, conversion, and abstraction - Feeling-words, logical connectives, questions and negation - made simple - Two full review units with tests, and a complete answer key - A gismu glossary (with place structures), a cmavo list, and an English-Lojban index Who it is for: curious beginners, logic and language lovers, programmers, and anyone who wants a language that always means exactly what it says. A logical language, one clear sentence at a time.