Loglan

human language (Later "Lojban" /lozh'bahn/) An artificial

human language designed by James Cooke Brown in the late

1950s.

Most artificial human languages devised in the 19th and 20th

centuries (e.g. Esperanto) were designed to be easy to learn.

Loglan, however, is unique in that its chief design goal was

to avoid synactic ambiguity -- the kind that arises when

trying to parse sentences like "The blind man picked up the

hammer and saw".

Loglan is thus the only human language unambiguously parseable

by a formal grammar (assuming you count Loglan as a human

language; its grammar is not at all like that of any natural

human language).

Most later development on Loglan continued under the name

"Lojban".

The Loglan Institute, Inc. is a non-profit research

corporation.

Loglan is apparently unrelated to the programming languages

Loglan'82 or Loglan-88.

Halcyon Loglan .

Helsinki Lojban .

Address: The Loglan Institute, Inc., 3009 Peters Way, San

Diego, CA, 92117-4313 U.S.A.

E-mail: [email protected]

Telephone: [phone].

["Scientific American", June 1960].

(1999-01-14)