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logical language en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see logical, language.
  2. (rare) A language designed to allow (or enforce) unambiguous statements; a loglang.
    • The people who left the Loglan project in 1987 started their own logical language under the name of the Logical Language Group. 2011 October 15, Stephen D Rogers, The Dictionary of Made-Up Languages, →ISBN, page 210:
    • The most famous logical language is “Lojban,” an offshoot of Loglan started in 1955 by James Cooke Brown and maintained by the “Logical Language Group” since 1987. 2007 December 9, Sarah Higley, Hildegard of Bingen’s Unknown Language: An Edition, Translation, and Discussion, →ISBN, page 133:
    • Logical language builder Garrett Jones estimates there are at least fourteen full-blown logical conlangs, including his own Minyeva and David Ma­dore’s amusingly named Yall (Yet Another Logical Language). 2005 May 1, Annalee Newitz, “The Conlangers’ Art”, in The Believer, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2020:

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