Dictionary

loglang en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈlɒɡlaŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈlɑɡlæŋ/ (General-American)
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Etymology

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

Meanings

1. A language designed to allow (or enforce) unambiguous statements; a logical language.
   • 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[…] 2005, Keith Brown, editor, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, →ISBN:
   • I think that NGL sounds like a loglang. (I confess I have not read the NGL thread.) 1997 November 19, Jack Durst, “NGL & the Gnoli triangle”, in alt.language.artificial.ngl:
   • 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). 2020 August 12, “A Primer on Constructed Languages”, in Jeffrey Punske, Nathan Sanders, Amy V. Fountain, editors, Language invention in Linguistics Pedagogy, →ISBN, page 25:

Forms

Deriveds

loglanger