loglang

English

Etymology

A blend of logical +‎ language; compare conlang. By surface analysis, suffixed with -lang.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɒɡlaŋ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɑɡlæŋ/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

loglang (plural loglangs)

  1. A language designed to allow (or enforce) unambiguous statements; a logical language.
    • 1997 November 19, Jack Durst, “NGL & the Gnoli triangle”, in alt.language.artificial.ngl‎[1]:
      I think that NGL sounds like a loglang. (I confess I have not read the NGL thread.)
    • 2005, Keith Brown, editor, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics‎[2], →ISBN:
      For example, from 1955 the sociologist and science fiction writer James Cooke Brown invented a loglang called 'Loglan', created to test out the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in linguistics […]
    • 2020 August 12, “A Primer on Constructed Languages”, in Jeffrey Punske, Nathan Sanders, Amy V. Fountain, editors, Language invention in Linguistics Pedagogy‎[3], →ISBN, page 25:
      The most notable well-developed examples of loglangs are James Cooke Brown's Loglan (1960) and its derivative Lojban, which was developed between 1987 and 1997 by the Logical Language Group (Cowan 1997).
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