loglang
English
editEtymology
editA blend of logical + language; compare conlang.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɒɡlaŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɑɡlæŋ/
Noun
editloglang (plural loglangs)
- 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 […]