Loglan
Sign in to saveLoglan is a logical constructed language originally designed for linguistic research, particularly for investigating the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. The language was developed beginning in 1955 by Dr. James Cooke Brown with the goal of making a language so different from natural languages that people learning it would think in a different way if the hypothesis were true. In 1960, Scientific American published an article introducing the language. Loglan is the first among, and the main inspiration for, the languages known as logical languages, which also includes Lojban.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Loglan
- Language.image
- UorfCartoon.gif
- Language.imagecaption
- Cartoon translation: "Professor Brown, someone is here, and has informed me that he wishes to test the Whorf hypothesis."
- Language.creator
- James Cooke Brown
- Language.created
- 1955
- Language.setting
- engineered language for testing the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis and other linguistic research
- Language.fam2
- engineered language
- Language.fam3
- logical language
- Language.posteriori
- eight of the most common languages: English, Chinese (Beijing dialect), Hindi, Russian, Spanish, French, Japanese, German
- Language.isoexception
- historical
- Language.glotto
- none
- Language.ietf
- art-x-loglan
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Welcome to Loglan.org
This page is the starting point for information about the constructed human language known as Loglan.
loglan.org →Link to the official site · 18,318 chars · not written by Vinony
Described at
CALS: Language: Loglan
cals.info →Link to a page describing this subject · 15,091 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.loglan.org
- Image
- UorfCartoon.gif
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- Commons category
- Loglan
- inception
- 1955-00-00
- described at URL
- loglangs.wiki/Loglan
- Stack Exchange tag
- conlang.stackexchange.com/tags/loglan
Sources (2)
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Article
14 sectionsContents
- Goals
- Alphabet and pronunciation
- Grammar
- Predicates
- Arguments
- Predicate modifiers
- Free variables
- Conjunctions
- Attitude indicators
- In popular culture
- Archival collection
- See also
- References
- External links
Loglan is a logical constructed language originally designed for linguistic research, particularly for investigating the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. The language was developed beginning in 1955 by Dr. James Cooke Brown with the goal of making a language so different from natural languages that people learning it would think in a different way if the hypothesis were true. In 1960, Scientific American published an article introducing the language. Loglan is the first among, and the main inspiration for, the languages known as logical languages, which also includes Lojban.
Brown founded The Loglan Institute (TLI) to develop the language and other applications of it. He always considered the language an incomplete research project, and although he released many publications about its design, he continued to claim legal restrictions on its use. Because of this, a group of his followers later formed the Logical Language Group to create the language Lojban along the same principles, but with the intention to make it freely available and encourage its use as a real language.