| Hello Martin, I think I can speak for many of us in saying “Welcome!” (or { coi }). Has anyone other than Wei and myself responded to your inquiry? If not, I have a small amount of information that may help. 1) For the grammar and other aspects of the language like the phonetics, the ortography and vocabulary. Are there any informal records, simulations or experiments leading to settling down on the particular aspects of the language? For example selecting the set of phonemes could be based on some kind of optimization.
-- Most, if not all, of these things are already codified in The Complete Lojban Language (also known as the Reference Grammar or CLL). This set of documents includes orthography, pronunciation, bridi structure, word classes, and so much more. Additionally, jbovlaste is a dictionary system used by the community to find, categorize, and occasionally define words. I’m not certain what kind of records, simulations, or experiments you would be looking for. The CLL is largely unambiguous about its pronunciation, orthography, and grammar (though some changes are in the works). On the other hand, there is a growing corpus of lojban creations, conversations, and proposals that help to demonstrate the practical applications of the CLL. Virtually everything you could want related to lojban can be found at the Lojban Mediawiki. 2) What is the estimate of people in the community and their fluency. Do you think people in the community would be interested in participating in cognitive experiments designed for Lojban? Some experiments might be paid and all results would be public and I hope leading to peer reviewed publication. Sadly, I am not well-integrated into the lojban community and have been relatively inactive in the last few months. I would wager a guess that the total number of people who have or actively do engage in lojban study is between 200-300, though admittedly that seems a little high. Of that group, I only know of a small handful (3-4) that the community at large might be comfortable calling ‘fluent’. Again, this is just my perspective; and I frankly know nothing, John Snow. I would be very excited to help in any way I can. I have been fumbling with building parsers, speech-to-text and text-to-speech synthesizers, and simple fiction of my own for a while now. If there is any way I can help further, please feel free to ask! mu’o mi’e la keidji Kyle Roucis 719-651-8007
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