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The Complete Lojban Language


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|- | picti | 10-12 | pico |- | femti | 10-15 | femto |- | xatsi | 10-18 | atto |- | zepti | 10-21 | zepto |- | gocti | 10-24 | yocto |}

Large metric prefixes (values greater than 1):


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|- | dekto | 10 | deka |- | xecto | 100 | hecto |- | kilto | 1000 | kilo |- | megdo | 106 | mega |- | gigdo | 109 | giga |- | terto | 1012 | tera |- | petso | 1015 | peta |- | xexso | 1018 | exa |- | zetro | 1021 | zetta |- | gotro | 1024 | yotta |}

Other scientific or mathematical terms:


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|- | delno | candela |- | kelvo | kelvin |- | molro | mole |- | radno | radian |- | sinso | sine |- | stero | steradian |- | tanjo | tangent |- | xampo | ampere |}

The gismu sinso and tanjo were only made non-algorithmically because they were identical (having been borrowed from a common source) in all the dictionaries that had translations. The other terms in this group are units in the international metric system; some metric units, however, were made by the ordinary process (usually because they are different in Chinese).

Finally, there are the cultural gismu, which are also borrowed, but by modifying a word from one particular language, instead of using the multi-lingual gismu creation algorithm. Cultural gismu are used for words that have local importance to a particular culture; other cultures or languages may have no word for the concept at all, or may borrow the word from its home culture, just as Lojban does. In such a case, the gismu algorithm, which uses weighted averages, doesn't accurately represent the frequency of usage of the individual concept. Cultural gismu are not even required to be based on the six major languages.

The six Lojban source languages:


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|- | jungo | Chinese (from “Zhong1 guo2”) |- | glico | English |- | xindo | Hindi |- | spano | Spanish |- | rusko | Russian |- | xrabo | Arabic |}

Seven other widely spoken languages that were on the list of candidates for gismu-making, but weren't used: