Loglan

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Loglan (logical language) is a constructed language that was developed in the late 1950s by James Cooke Brown.

After a linguistic theory - the Sapir -Whorf hypothesis - is the meaning of a statement depends on the structure of language: language influences the thinking, not vice versa. A culture thus developed with the language and its limitations. If these limits are lifted, individual thinking and the development of cultures should be forward.

Loglan was designed to test this hypothesis. Brown wanted to explore whether people who learn a quite different language also think very differently. Therefore, he insisted that Loglan differed in every respect from the natural languages. A specific feature of this language is that the meaningful words are not distinguished in verbs, nouns, etc., and especially that the syntax is constructed strictly in accordance with aspects of predicate logic. Loglan so that was the first logical language.

The language was first described in June 1960 in Scientific American. In 1966 appeared Loglan 1, a comprehensive description of the language. Since computer analyzes syntactic inaccuracies brought to light, the language has evolved over the years. It was not until 1988 the final Loglan. It is a speakable language in principle. Although the grammar is simple, but it is difficult, the language actually learn. The exact thinking in a strictly logical and straightforward language does not seem to correspond to the human spirit.

As Brown tried to limit the use of the language by legal means did in the 1980s, many of his followers in the Logical Language Group together and developed along similar lines, a new, unlimited use of the language called Lojban.