Loglan
Loglan
(human language)Most artificial human languages devised in the 19th and 20thcenturies (e.g. Esperanto) were designed to be easy to learn.Loglan, however, is unique in that its chief design goal wasto avoid synactic ambiguity -- the kind that arises whentrying to parse sentences like "The blind man picked up thehammer and saw".
Loglan is thus the only human language unambiguously parseableby a formal grammar (assuming you count Loglan as a humanlanguage; its grammar is not at all like that of any naturalhuman language).
Most later development on Loglan continued under the name"Lojban".
The Loglan Institute, Inc. is a non-profit researchcorporation.
Loglan is unrelated to the programming languages Loglan'82or Loglan-88.
Halcyon Loglan.
E-mail: loglan@compuserve.com
Telephone: +1 (619) 270 1691.
Address: The Loglan Institute, Inc., 3009 Peters Way, SanDiego, CA, 92117-4313 U.S.A.
["Scientific American", June 1960].