| 1. Lojban As We Mangle It In Lojbanistan: About This Book
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| 1.1. What is Lojban?
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| 1.2. What is this book?
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| 1.3. What are the typographical conventions of this book?
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| 1.4. Disclaimers
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| 1.5. Acknowledgements and Credits
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| 1.6. Informal Bibliography
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| 1.7. Captions to Pictures
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| 1.8. Boring Legalities
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| 2. A Quick Tour of Lojban Grammar, With Diagrams
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| 2.1. The concept of the bridi
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| 2.2. Pronunciation
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| 2.3. Words that can act as sumti
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| 2.4. Some words used to indicate selbri relations
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| 2.5. Some simple Lojban bridi
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| 2.6. Variant bridi structure
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| 2.7. Varying the order of sumti
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| 2.8. The basic structure of longer utterances
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| 2.9. tanru
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| 2.10. Description sumti
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| 2.11. Examples of brivla
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| 2.12. The sumti di'u and la'e di'u
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| 2.13. Possession
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| 2.14. Vocatives and commands
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| 2.15. Questions
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| 2.16. Indicators
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| 2.17. Tenses
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| 2.18. Lojban grammatical terms
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| 3. The Hills Are Alive With The Sounds Of Lojban
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| 3.1. Orthography
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| 3.2. Basic Phonetics
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| 3.3. The Special Lojban Characters
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| 3.4. Diphthongs and Syllabic Consonants
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| 3.5. Vowel Pairs
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| 3.6. Consonant Clusters
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| 3.7. Initial Consonant Pairs
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| 3.8. Buffering Of Consonant Clusters
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| 3.9. Syllabication And Stress
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| 3.10. IPA For English Speakers
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| 3.11. English Analogues For Lojban Diphthongs
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| 3.12. Oddball Orthographies
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| 4. The Shape Of Words To Come: Lojban Morphology
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| 4.1. Introductory
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| 4.2. cmavo
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| 4.3. brivla
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| 4.4. gismu
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| 4.5. lujvo
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| 4.6. rafsi
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| 4.7. fu'ivla
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| 4.8. cmene
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| 4.9. Rules for inserting pauses
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| 4.10. Considerations for making lujvo
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