Loglan is an artificial human language originally designed/invented by James Cooke Brown in the late 1950's. He has worked on it ever since with the help and input of many volunteers.
Three Old Men of Loglandia: From left to right: James Brown (founder), Bob McIvor (chief grammarian), Alex Leith (first Loglan novelist)
There is now a listing of all the articles that have appeared in Lognet, with links to those articles which are available here. (More links will be added as time permits.)
John Kennedy has improved his beta version of the LOD (Loglan Online Dictionary) rewritten for Java 5.0 or better.
I have uploaded a minor update to the Macintosh version of the Loglan Online Dictionary (LOD). This fixes a display problem under MacOS X.
Robert McIvor has been compiling the notes generated by James Cooke Brown and Alex Leith while preparing the novel First Visit to Loglandia, the first part of which recently appeared in La Logli. Chapters of the notes will be posted, along with the original Loglan and English texts, as they become available.
For Programmers: The Loglan Institute is making the source code for its various software products available for download.
What is Loglan? A short description of Loglan and its origins. This is the flyer that The Loglan Institute mails to people who inquire.
Vizka La Spat A short bit of text with a detailed explaination for those who have never seen Loglan before.
Loglan 3 by Steve Rice, our basic Loglan primer, is now available in Adobe Acrobat format as shareware. This is a revised edition that replaces the partial HTML version that was previously available here.
The basic textbook, Loglan 1, is now online. This is the revised 4th edition, just like the paper 1989 edition but with all known errors corrected.
Appendix A of Loglan 1 is a list of Loglan little words. Bill Gober has created an updated version. It is available either
sorted by word or
sorted by lexeme.
Robert McIvor has compiled the notes written by James Cooke Brown and Alex Leith while preparing the novel First Visit to Loglandia, the first part of which appeared in La Logli.
Loglan 3 by Steve Rice, our basic Loglan primer, is available in Adobe Acrobat format as shareware.
The Mia System of Subjunctive by James Cooke Brown.
Another counterfactual/subjunctive proposal. A version of this was adopted by the Keugru in early 1997, although another version is also under consideration.
Identity Predicates and MEX, by Emerson Mitchell.
A gritty discussion of the requirements of a Mathematical Expression grammar, with extensive comments by JCB.
Hu Logla Sanpa Toi? from Lognet 91/3
The columnist introduces himself, explains the column's title, and recommends The Loglan Institute's learning materials.
Body Parts from Lognet 91/4
How Loglan describes parts of your body, and part-whole relationships in general.
Confessions of a PA Abuser from Lognet 92/2
The right and wrong ways to use words in the PA lexeme. (The words that are in the same grammatical family as pa.)
Numbers and How to Use Them from Lognet 93/2
Lots of inventive examples of how numbers might be used in various contexts.
Lopo Duible Le Meliu PA Leksemi (Exploring the PA Lexeme) from Lognet 96/3
A discussion of some under used and sometimes provocative constructions. Although this wasn't published as one of the excellent Sanpa columns, it is much the same spirit.
Sau La Lodtua from Lognet 92/2 A lesson in the basic concepts of first-order predicate logic, the mathematical theory on which Loglan is partially based.
Sau La Lodtua from Lognet 93/2 Some brief remarks on the significance of Loglan and its present condition from the position of a mathematical logician.
Sau La Lodtua from Lognet 93/4 An argument that the first-order logic features of natural language are largely implicit rather than explicit, potential rather than actual..
Many of the articles at Loglan.org were originally published in The Loglan Institute's newsletter Lognet. These archives have links to the main articles listed in chronological order, as well as to additional articles of more historical interest. (More links will be added as time permits.)
For Programmers: The Loglan Institute is making the source code for its various software products available for download.
Vyatcheslav Ivanov has written a Loglan web page with sections in both Russian and Esperanto. You'll need a Cyrillic font to read the Russian parts.
For Macintosh users: Your Mac can actually speak Loglan for you with our highly experimental Loglan Text To Speech page.
The Machine Grammar
This is the yacc source for the Loglan parser. If you don't know what "yacc" is, you probably don't need this. ('yacc' stands for "yet another compiler compiler". It's a tool that programmers use for writing software that parses text files.) This is "Trial 80" of the grammar from 1994 -- not the most recent but it's a good starting point.
More official information on Loglan is available from:
THE LOGLAN INSTITUTE, INC.
A Non-Profit Research Corporation
c/o Jennifer Brown
1701 N.E. 75 St.
Gainesville, FL 32641
U.S.A.
Phone: (352) 378-5655
Informal questions and comments about Loglan or about the content of these pages
can be directed to the author of this page at:
There is also an electronic mailing list for answering the questions of beginning Loglanists. To subscribe, send e-mail to:
listserve@ucsd.edu
With the message:
add <user@address> loglanists
After that you may post to the list by sending e-mail to:
loglanists@ucsd.edu
This list is rather quiet since the advanced Loglanists are in the habit of carrying on their discussions in small groups by ordinary e-mail. But they are listening, so if you have a question, speak up.
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