logical language
English
Noun
logical language (plural logical languages)
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see logical, language.
- (rare) A language designed to allow (or enforce) unambiguous statements; a loglang.
- 2005 May 1, Annalee Newitz, “The Conlangers’ Art”, in The Believer:
- Logical language builder Garrett Jones estimates there are at least fourteen full-blown logical conlangs, including his own Minyeva and David Madore’s amusingly named Yall (Yet Another Logical Language).
- 2007 December 9, Sarah Higley, Hildegard of Bingen’s Unknown Language: An Edition, Translation, and Discussion, →ISBN, page 133:
- The most famous logical language is “Lojban,” an offshoot of Loglan started in 1955 by James Cooke Brown and maintained by the “Logical Language Group” since 1987.
- 2011 October 15, Stephen D Rogers, The Dictionary of Made-Up Languages, →ISBN, page 210:
- The people who left the Loglan project in 1987 started their own logical language under the name of the Logical Language Group.