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Lojban is practiced by its speakers in voice and text chats.
Lojban is practiced by its speakers in voice and text chats.
===As a programming language===
===As a programming language===
There've been several installments showing Lojban to be used as a declarative and as a functional programming language. No complete language or an actual implementation exist as of now.
There've been several installments showing Lojban to be used as a declarative and as a functional programming language. No complete language or an actual implementation exists as of now.


===As a machine interlingua===
===As a machine interlingua===
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===Stress===
===Stress===
Stress normally falls on the penultimate syllable.
Content words have their stress on the penultimate syllable. Particles can be stressed arbitrarily, or not stressed at all. The syllables with the vowel nucleus ''y'' is disregarded while placing stress. ''y'' never gets stressed.
 
{| class="wikitable"
|-
| .i .uanai mi ba na'e citka lo bigysoi cidjrspageti
|-
| .i .ua nai mi ba na'e '''cít'''ka lo '''bí'''gysoi cidjrspa'''gé'''ti
|-
| "''Huh?? I'll do something other than eating, to the conscripted spaghetti."''
|-
|}


===Diphthongs===
===Diphthongs===