How to count in Lojban
Enter a number and get it written in full in Lojban.
Language overview
Lojban (from logji and bangu, or logic language) is a syntactically unambiguous constructed language based on predicate logic, created in 1987 by The Logical Language Group. Lojban is derivated from Loglan, a language invented in 1955 by James Cooke Brown who claimed copyright on it, so Lojban started afresh from its lexical basis to create a whole new vocabulary.
Lojban numbering rules
- Digits from zero to nine are specific words: no [0], pa [1], re [2], ci [3], vo [4], mu [5], xa [6], ze [7], bi [8], and so [9].
- Compound numbers up to nine hundred and ninety-nine are formed by juxtaposing their composing digits names to each others. Thus, we can form pano [10] (one zero), vore [42] (four two), panono [100] (one zero zero), binoso [809] (eight zero nine)…
- When three zeroes are following each other, the word for thousand (ki’o) is used instead of nonono (which is otherwise grammatically correct). Thousands are formed this way (e.g.: paki’o [1,000], ci paki’o [3,000], vo ki’o musore [4,592]).
- Millions are formed the same way as thousands, i.e. by prefixing the million word (ki’oki’o) by its digit multiplier (e.g.: paki’oki’o [1 million], re paki’oki’o [2 million]). Higher scale numbers (billions, trillions…) are regularly formed the same way.
Books
What Is Lojban?
by Nick Nicholas, John Woldemar Cowan, editors Logical Language Group (2003)
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The Complete Lojban Language
by John Woldemar Cowan, editors Logical Language Group (1997)
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Numbers list
| 1 – pa 2 – re 3 – ci 4 – vo 5 – mu 6 – xa 7 – ze 8 – bi 9 – so | 10 – pano 11 – papa 12 – pare 13 – paci 14 – pavo 15 – pamu 16 – paxa 17 – paze 18 – pabi | 19 – paso 20 – reno 30 – cino 40 – vono 50 – muno 60 – xano 70 – zeno 80 – bino 90 – sono | 100 – panono 1,000 – paki’o one million – paki’oki’o |
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Logical languages
Loglan, and Lojban.
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