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la jbovlaste

la jbovlaste is the dictionary editing system for the constructed language Lojban. It is available online at http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/

In Lojban, jbovlaste means "Lojbanic dictionary" and is derived from the Lojban words lojbo "Lojbanic", valsi "word" and liste "list" using their rafsi short forms jbo + vla + ste.

The Lojban dictionary is multilingual: the Lojban words have definitions translated into many languages.

The Lojban dictionary is prescriptive, unlike the descriptive dictionaries for most natural languages. See "dictionary" on the Lojban.org website for more information.

The Lojban dictionary is editable by its users if they have made an account on the site. No user account is necessary to view Lojbanic word definitons.

Many other dictionaries and tools are based on jbovlaste; refer to the Lojban website for more information.

The Lojban wiki page devoted to jbovlaste is https://mw.lojban.org/papri/la_jbovlaste

Service Management

jbovlaste is the name of both the software and of the service that runs it. The service lives at https://jbovlaste.lojban.org/ . Management of that service uses LBCS ( https://github.com/lojban/lbcs/ ), and the service management details and configuration are at https://github.com/lojban/jbovlaste-containers