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by eyeonus 6065 days ago
In Lojban,the letters which appear in the word Lojban are pronounced thusly:

L as in Logger; O as in wOn't; J as in aZure; B as in Boy; A as in wAter; N as in Nice;

Lojban is therefore pronounced LõZH-ban, with stress on "LõZH".

"Lojban" is a cmene (name) derived from the lujvo (compound word) "lojbau", a conjunction of "lojbo bangu", a tanru meaning "logical type-of language".

"Lojban" is not ambiguous as to spelling, being phonetic (unlike "phonetic") and also non-ambiguous in meaning, since the name for the logical language Lojban means "logical language".