Proper noun
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.
Gainesville, Florida: The Loglan Institute, Inc. there were only 21 letters with their corresponding phonemes. Source: Internet
Archival collection Archival material related to the creation and teaching of Loglan, including flashcards and grammar explanations, can be found in the Faith Rich Papers, located at Chicago Public Library Special Collections, Chicago, Illinois. Source: Internet
Brown founded The Loglan Institute (TLI) to develop the language and other applications of it. Source: Internet
Goals Loglan (an abbreviation for "logical language") was created to investigate whether people speaking a "logical language" would in some way think more logically, as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis might predict. Source: Internet
Grammar Loglan has three types of words: predicates (also called content words), structure words (also called little words), and names. Source: Internet
Loglan's inventor, James Cooke Brown, also wrote a utopian science fiction novel The Troika Incident (1970) that uses Loglan phrases but calls the language a different name, "Panlan". Source: Internet