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Lojban is the logical language constructed as a free to use version of Loglan which, in turn, was focused on testing the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity.

The Complete Lojban Book contains all the information about the language and is known as the reference grammar of the language.

Given the prevalence of writing system usages writing system and their respective languages usage

writing system	type	population	major languages
latin	alphabet	4900	english(1268) spanish(537) french(276) portuguese(252) indonesian(199) german(131) swahili(98)
chinese 汉字	logogram	1340	mandarin(1120) japanese(126)
arabic ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة	abugida	660	arabic(274) urdu(170)
devanagari देवनागरी	abugida	608	hindi(637) marathi(95)
bengali বাংলা	abugida	265	bengali(265)
cyrillic кирилица	alphabet	250	russian(258)
hangul 한글	featural	80	korean(79)

Lojban is a spoken language using the following phonemes (allophones marked in parenthesis) शोी

		bilab	labdent	alvl	pstalv	palatal	velar	uvular	glottal
ocl obst	unv plsv	p ـپـ प п ㅍ [p]		t ـتـ त т ㅌ [t]			k ـكـ क к ㅋ [k]	. ـعـ अ . ? [ʔ]
ocl cont	voiced plsv	b ـبـ ब б ㅂ [b]		d ـدـ द д ㄷ [d]			g ـگـ ग г ㄱ [g]
ocl nasal	nasal	m ـمـ म м ㅁ [m]		n ـنـ न н ㄴ [n]
sibilant	unv fric		f ـفـ फ़ ф ㄲ [f]	s ـسـ स с ㅅ [s]	c ـشـ श ш ㅊ [ʃ]		x ـخـ ख़ х ㅇ [x]		' ـهـ ह ' ㅇ [h]
sibilant	voi fric		v ـۏـ व в ㅃ [v]	z ـزـ ज़ з ㅈ [z]	j ـجـ ज ж ㅉ [ʒ]
vibr lat	tap or flap			r ـرـ र р ㄸ [ɾ]
vocoid cont	lateral			l ـلـ ल л ㄹ [l]		i ـيـ इ и [j]	u ـوـ उ у [w]
vocoid cont	vowels					i ــِـ ी и ㅣ [i]	u ــُـ ू у ㅜ [u]
vocoid cont	vowels					e ــٕـ ॆ e ㅓ [ɛ]	y ــْـ ृ ъ ㅡ [ə]	o ــّـ ो o ㅗ ぉ [ɔ]
vocoid cont	vowels					a ــَـ ा a ㅏ [a]

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Syllabary

bilabial	─	a	e	i	o	u	y	alveolar	─	a	e	i	o	u	y
p	パ	ぱ	ぺ	ぷ	ぽ	ぴ	プ	t	タ゚	た゚	て゚	ち゚	と゚	つ゚	ツ゚
b	バ	ば	べ	び	ぼ	び	ブ	d	ダ	だ	で	ぢ	ど	づ	ヅ
m	マ	ま	め	み	も	む	ム	n	ナ	な	ね	に	の	ぬ	ヌ
velar	─	a	e	i	o	u	y	alveolar	─	a	e	i	o	u	y
k	カ゚	か゚	け゚	き゚	こ゚	く゚	ク゚
g	ガ	が	げ	ぎ	ご	ぐ	グ
x	カ	か	け	き	こ	く	ク
lbdntl	─	a	e	i	o	u	y
f
v
sibilant	─	a	e	i	o	u	y
s	サさせしそすス
z	サさせしそすス
ʃ	サさせしそすス
ʒ
ltrl tap
ɾ	ラられりろるル
l	ラられりろるル
h	ハはへひほふフ

Some choices were made to accomodate for the limitations of input methods. Online keyboards are available for ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة, देवनागरी, кирилица and 한글.

The language is structured based on the mathematical first order logic principle also known as predicate logic. The sentence bridi, برِدِ, бриди, बरीदी, ㅂ띠디 structure in lojban in based on predicates selbri, سٍلبرِ, ceлбри, सेलबरी, 설ㅂ띠 and arguments sumti, سُمتِ, cумти, सूमती, 숨티.