Xorban

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Xorban (loglang)
la xrbna bnga
created in: 2012
by: Jorge Llambías, And Rosta, Mike S.
specification:[1] (in en)

Xorban ([ˈxorbän]) is an unfinished logical language created in 2012 to improve on Lojban. The name Xorban comes from xorxes, the Lojban moniker of co-creator Jorge Llambias, plus the Lojban affix for 'language'.

Background

Aims

Influences

History

Design

Phonology and orthography

Xorban has a similar phoneme inventory to that of Lojban. It has twenty-two consonants and six vowels.

Consonant phonemes
Labial Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive p b t d k g ʔ
Fricative f v (θ) s z ʃ ʒ x ɦ
Nasal m n
Lateral l
Rhotic r
Semivowel w j


Vowel phonemes
Front Central Back
Close i u
Mid ɛ ə ɔ
Open a
The Xorban alphabet
Grapheme none ' a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Phoneme ə ɦ a b ʃ d ɛ f g θ i ʒ k l m n ɔ p ʔ r s t u v w x j z

(Differences from the IPA are highlighted.)

Schwa is not written. It occurs predictably.

Phoneme classes

Phonotactics

Epenthesis

Prosody

Morphology

Word classes

Significance of final vowels

Compounding

Syntax

Explicit assigned variables

Semantics

Lexicon

Reception

Notes

References