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loglang

noun
/ˈlɒɡlaŋ/UK/ˈlɑɡlæŋ/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s✻
  2. derived from dingua
  3. derived from lingua
  4. derived from *linguāticum✻
  5. derived from language
  6. inherited from langage
  7. compounded as loglang — “logical + language”

Definitions

  1. A language designed to allow (or enforce) unambiguous statements

    A language designed to allow (or enforce) unambiguous statements; a logical language.

    • I think that NGL sounds like a loglang. (I confess I have not read the NGL thread.)
    • 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[…]
    • 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).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for loglang. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA