Complete language

The Complete Lojban Language, the 2016 printed edition

CLL unofficial (colloquially, UnCLL, InCLL) is a project organized by Gleki of regular experimental unofficial (not necessarily approved by the Logical Language Group) builds of the Complete Lojban Language book.

Releases

geklojban-1.2.16 October 2024

Compiled version

Short list of changes compared to the previous version 'geklojban-1.2.15 October 2022'

  • issue #409 added two tables with phonology for American English and separately British English speakers.
  • issue #518 such examples as le nanmu cu ninmu (The man is a woman.) are replaced with le mlatu cu gerku (The cat is a dog.) because they better reflect the idea of non-veridical reference.
  • issue #515 one text from the Chrestomathy is replaced with a larger text 'Forest Nymph' (a translation of a short story by the Bulgarian writer Elin Pelin)
  • issue #499 definition for tanru grouping fixed. The new text: A second rule relating to bo is that where more than one bo -marked connective is used in succession, the normal Lojban left-grouping rule is replaced by a right-grouping rule.
  • issue #513 French diacritics fixed
  • issue #506, issue #507, issue #508, issue #511 fixed glosses in several examples (thanks to Oheto for noticing)
  • issue #510 incorrect translation of ti liste mi ce'o do ce'o la .djan. fixed (thanks to Oheto for noticing)
  • issue #509 in several examples the name of the dog "Alice" was fixed to "Fido" as in other examples (thanks to Oheto for noticing)
  • issue #504 ke'a was incorrectly attributed to GOhA - fixed
  • fixed other minor mistypes in the text

git source of the UnCLL

geklojban-1.2.15 October 2022

Compiled version

Short list of changes compared to the previous version 'geklojban-1.2.14 July 2021'

  • fix mistypes and stylistic problems in the chrestomathy (thanks to koyshi, gleki)
  • issue #475 nunkilbra changed to nunkilca'a (thanks up4kid)
  • issue #466 improved tosmabru test algorithm (thanks vpbroman)
  • issue #473 "matrix transpose" cmavo now uses superscript T for transposition operator
  • Helvetica font mentions are replaced with Comic font mentions ("Comic" is a name of an at least one open-source font)
  • fixed other minor mistypes (thanks Matt Nazarian, mattfbacon, la-kanba)
  • CSS changes to make html versions work better on devices in dark mode (thanks to NathanHawks)
  • the UnCLL now has visual difference files from the previous release and separately for the official release.

git source of the UnCLL

geklojban-1.2.14 July 2021

Compiled version

Short list of changes compared to the previous version 'geklojban-1.2.11.1 October 2020'

  • it's one of the major improvements. Lojban Words Glossary got around 200 new examples of sentences in Lojban with their translation to English. Since the number of core words in Lojban is around 2000 it means ~10% of this task is done
  • fixed errors in with bo, ke'e in Chapter 5. 'Scalar negation of selbri'
  • fix an incorrect name of one audio file
  • more improvements to the index: added ZEhA and more BAI
  • better explain cmevla according to the dotside
  • add missing dots in cmavo where necessary
  • fix punctuation in 'Kubla Khan' poem translation

git source of the UnCLL

geklojban-1.2.13 May 2021

Compiled version

Short list of changes compared to the previous version 'geklojban-1.2.11.1 October 2020'

  • add new beautiful chapter pictures by la-ninpre
  • add a translation of 'In Xanadu' poem to the chrestomathy
  • fix weirdly dated attempt at set theory by simpson
  • fix definition of toldi (butterfly)
  • fix incorrect statement that implied fuhivla don't have rafsi
  • make the explanation of le vi tavla ba klama less misleading (fix implemented by mezohe)
  • Matrices of more than two dimensions can be built up using either pi'a or sa'i with an appropriate subscript labeling the dimension... Labels can be any anything that xi supports, e.g. pa or mlatu bu.
  • Chapter 5: restore mention of bo grouping in section on NAhE, and add bo to one example (fix implemented by mezohe)
  • Chapter 7: fix statement about ra'o in example 7.39 (fix implemented by mezohe)
  • Chapter 2: fix diagram (predicate -> predication) (fix implemented by mezohe)
  • add missing dots in cmavo
  • fixed other minor mistypes, elements of indices, compilation scripts etc.

git source of the UnCLL

geklojban-1.2.12 November 2020

Compiled version

Short list of changes compared to the previous version 'geklojban-1.2.11.1 October 2020'

  • Added standard pronunciation of {u} in IPA chapter (by Vexatos)
  • Subscript symbols in glosses are treated appropriately (bug noticed by gr-g)
  • Fixed a grammatical error in Example 17.36 (bug noticed by kotwys)
  • The particle ri'u was missing from Section 10.28 (as noticed by gr-g). Added
  • In Example 7.12 the first place of lafti is applied to a person. The predicate change to lafmuvgau (which is in the notes of the definition of lafti)
  • In English text change .) to ). where necessary
  • Display square root, infinity and golden ration phi with actual symbols
  • Fix incorrect translation of levi rozgu cu sofi'upanova'e xunre
  • other minor fixes

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geklojban-1.2.11.1 October 2020

Compiled version

Short list of changes compared to the previous version 'geklojban-1.2.10 August 2020'

  • Audio links (audio by la tcakoi, la .lindar., la .aionys.) are added to "splits by sections" and "split by chapters" HTML versions of the book
  • fix several mistypes
  • add hanzi characters to one Chinese example
  • 1.2.11.1 hotfix release: make audio buttons in HTML pages actually work

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geklojban-1.2.10 August 2020

Compiled version

Short list of changes compared to the previous version 'geklojban-1.2.9 July 2020'

  • Chrestomathy (selected texts) volume added after the last chapter
  • dots are never omitted in words, not even in Lojban Words Index

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geklojban-1.2.9 July 2020

Compiled version

Short list of changes compared to the previous version 'geklojban-1.2.8.1 June 2020'

  • HTML version now has tables and examples horizontally scrollable on narrow (e.g. mobile devices') screens. This makes the HTML version more mobile-friendly
  • EPUB is generated again (was missing from version 1.2.8.1)
  • Korean and Chinese symbols are now displayed using Noto CJK font
  • places like "" are now displayed with numbers subscripted
  • An example in Section 16.9 {naku zo'u la djan. klama} didn't correspond to other examples around it so it was replaced with {naku zo'u mi klama le zarci} (a bug noticed by Corbin Simpson)
  • a definition of the word {bu'u} is added to the list of other grammatical partices of class FAhA

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geklojban-1.2.8.1 June 2020

Compiled version

Short list of changes compared to the previous version 'geklojban-1.2.7 May 2020'

  • A new "diacritic" orthography named "zbalermorna" added. It's clearly mentioned as unofficial. Its symbols ("letters") are displayed with an appropriate font. Kudos to Jack Humbert and their team (la saski'o, la xaspeljba and others) for the font and the revision of the explanation of the orthography.
  • The indices have been revised (almost all of their 4000 entries). Numerous entries have been modified for the ease of use or moved from Lojban Words Index to General Index or vice versa.
  • the rule for usage of the comma is reverted back to the version from the CLL 1.1
  • a better diff algorithm for viewing differences between versions (without extra clutter)
  • version 1.2.8.1 hotfix release: fixed problems with zbalermorna symbols display in the PDF document

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geklojban-1.2.7 May 2020

Compiled version

Short list of changes compared to the previous version 'geklojban-1.2.6 April 2020'

  • "The cmavo tu'a is used in forming abstractions, and is explained more fully in Section 11.11." but it isn't mentioned at all in that section. Changed the reference to Section 11.10. The bug is noticed by Robert Baruch.
  • all the references to selma'o are moved from lojban words index to general index in the appendix.
  • Section 10.18. The phrase "Unlike -nai contradictory negation, scalar negation of tenses is not limited to PU and FAhA:" contradicted the following text of the section. Replaced with "An example of scalar negation of FAhA:"

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geklojban-1.2.6 April 2020

Compiled version

Short list of changes compared to the previous version 'geklojban-1.2.5 March 2020'

  • new slick hi-res pictures for several chapters made by la ninpre (possible copyright violation rejected)
  • the rule 'commas are never required' is now temporarily limited to commas that are syllable separators
  • added more links to various selma'o to lojban-word index

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geklojban-1.2.5 March 2020

Compiled version

Short list of changes compared to the version 'geklojban-1.2.3 January 2020'

  • temporarily remove controversial use of ni+ce'u
  • use a better example for NU JA NU, remove expansion of NU JA NU (which may not be unambiguous in case of several NU JA NU in one bridi)
  • add hanzi and prettier pinyin to Chinese examples
  • Dotside: Adding an initial glottal stop to the IPA transcription in one example
  • add "FA selma'o" to lojban-word index
  • the rule 'commas are never required' is temporarily limited to cmevla only
  • a few mistypes are fixed
  • UTF symbols are added as they are (instead of their descriptions)
  • Dotside implemented
  • "cmene" and "cmevla" concepts are now separated
  • sumti tcita is renamed to sumtcita
  • mi kucli le jei broda is now mi kucli tu'a le jei broda
  • Dictionary with examples is now technically possible: the glossary can now have examples below definitions of words (and does so for the word coi as a showcase)
  • rafsi for su'u, za'i, zu'o, pu'u, mu'e are changed according to the cmavo.txt from year 2002.
  • immense amount of mistypes and minor errors fixed

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geklojban-1.2.4 February 2020

Compiled version

Short list of changes compared to the version 'geklojban-1.2.3 January 2020'

  • a few mistypes are fixed
  • UTF symbols are added as they are (instead of their descriptions)

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geklojban-1.2.3 January 2020

Short list of changes

  • Dotside implemented
  • "cmene" and "cmevla" concepts are now separated
  • sumti tcita is renamed to sumtcita
  • mi kucli le jei broda is now mi kucli tu'a le jei broda
  • Dictionary with examples is now technically possible: the glossary can now have examples below definitions of words (and does so for the word coi as a showcase)
  • rafsi for su'u, za'i, zu'o, pu'u, mu'e are changed according to the cmavo.txt from year 2002.
  • immense amount of mistypes and minor errors fixed

git source