Meanings
- Any of several related artificial languages, designed to be logical, the first of which was developed by James Cooke Brown in the mid-20th century.
- The original language developed by James Cooke Brown, as maintained by The Loglan Institute.
The Loglan formal grammar is made up of 91 CFG-type rules.
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Loglan is an isolating language, much like English. That means that once you’ve learned a word, you don’t have to worry about changing its form. Even in English, you have to remember to add ‘-ed’ to a verb to make it refer to the past, and ‘-s’ to nouns to make them plural. In Loglan, you won’t have to do that. Also, some English verbs and nouns have irregular forms. There are no irregular Loglan forms.
1994 May, Stephen L. Rice, “Loglan 3 : Understanding Loglan”, in www.loglan.org, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2024, retrieved 04 Aug 2012Typically, the people who develop Romanization systems (or constructed languages like Loglan or Iqglic they'll want their alphabet to minimize surprises so that it's easy to learn. So they'll typically choose letter-sound correspondences from existing languages. Though, they don't necessarily take all of their letters from the same language (which may be your source of confusion).
2023 September 26, dan04, Linguistics Stack Exchange
Origin
Short for logical language.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Polish loglan, loglan
- loglanany of several languages
- loglanthe original language
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Loglan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Loglan
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