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welcome to loglan org welcome to loglan org skip to main what s new beginners materials texts articles columns lognet miscellaneous contact loi logli loglan is an artificial human language originally designed invented by james cooke brown in the late 1950 s he worked on it for many years with the help and input of many volunteers james cooke brown in beijing april 1994 what s new fall 2015 report on the state of the loglan language official and provisional randall holmes has written a comprehensive report on the state of the loglan language as of fall 2015 for the board the academy and the membership loglan academy agenda with annotated provisional formal grammar pdf file by randall holmes is randall s summary of his recent work where he attempts to describe loglan as a peg grammar this is a link to randall s copy on his web site which will be updated as he works on it public agenda for the loglan institute by randall holmes summarizes the current news about the loglan institute and what it might conceivably get up to pdf file notebook 3 the present state of the loglan language was the most complete description of loglan available in 1987 it is now available as a set of scanned pdf files download part i part ii or part iii they are 5 6 megabytes each for beginners 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 easy loglan an introduction for beginners by alex leith his idea was to pare loglan down to an easy to learn essential core a more technical description of his method is to come 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 available study materials the basic textbook loglan 1 is now online you may read it from this web site download the html as a zip file 800k or download an adobe acrobat pdf file 4 4meg this is the revised 4th edition just like the paper 1989 edition but with all known errors corrected readings from loglan 1 the loglan language learning cassettes that the loglan institute has been selling are now available for download loglan 3 by steve rice our basic loglan primer is available in adobe acrobat format as shareware the loglan to english and english to loglan dictionaries known as loglan 4 5 are available as searchable html documents download and uncompress the zip archive 1 5 meg and then read the files with your favorite browser html 4 preferred a loglan english dictionary is available as java based software 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 loglan paradigms has been updated by mike demoulin this is a handy reference to the basic features of the language which originally appeared in the now out of date paper dictionary loglan 4 5 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 notebook 3 the present state of the loglan language was the most complete description of loglan available in 1987 it is now available as a set of scanned pdf files download part i part ii or part iii they are 5 6 megabytes each sample texts vizka la spat for those who have never seen loglan before a cartoon in loglan by rex may lo logla plipursei a simple original loglan composition about the pain of memorization ne clina fora a four line poem from the rubaiyat of omar khayyam 1st ed translation by robert mcivor and friends na lepo mi pa hirti le cirflo tarsenmao a walt whitman poem translated by james cooke brown ne dristu je la helas a humorous true story about traveling in greece by robert mcivor ne rorlensia a humorous true story about languages with a collegiate setting ne logle po lerbatmi some correspondence about loglan in loglan between the two jameses le fidsesmao kamkystu a funny story about physicists as told by dr leon lederman translation by jcb le fidsesmao kamkystu lerci a letter in loglan which comments on the funny story about physicists ne tradu stuci a true story about u s korean relations by kirk sattley la nu stucue je la mioskun the dormouse s story a passage from alice in wonderland by lewis carroll a selection from sophie s world an excerpt from the philosophical novel sophie s world by jostein gaarder translation by alex leith nepo neri vizgoi la loglandias a first visit to loglandia a story about someone traveling to a loglan speaking country by alex leith notes on nepo neri vizgoi la loglandias a first visit to loglandia robert mcivor has compiled the notes generated by james cooke brown and alex leith while preparing the novel first visit to loglandia the first part of which appeared in la logli notes for each chapter are posted along with the original loglan and english texts articles the many faces of gu an explanation of gu and its kin by robert mcivor how to use abstractions advice on how to use po pu and zo complex making in loglan some rules of thumb used for making many loglan compound words by robert mcivor logic and economy an essay on the nature of language lo cejnoa trends an enthusiastic essay on the future of loglan has lots of example text towards a theory of case tags a speculative essay on loglan s optional case tag system and how it relates to language in general subjunctive junction articles that relate to the counterfactual subjunctive debate i would if i could a proposal for adding something similar to but different from a subjunctive to loglan counterfactuals in perspective a comparison of the i would if i could proposal to several other counterfactual subjunctive proposals 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 sets and multiples and sets and masses two essays on collectives such as sets multiples and masses by jcb abstract for loglan and the option of clarity a genuinely user friendly language for humans and their machines by reed riner alas we cannot post the full article here for copyright reasons but you can easily request it from the author by e mail it s about 35k identity predicates and mex by emerson mitchell a gritty discussion of the requirements of a mathematical expression grammar with extensive comments by jcb alex leith wrote two articles on easy loglan a provisional description an outline of the idea and an introduction for beginners an example lesson regular columns from lognet hu logla sanpa toi what s the loglan for this by bill gober 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 lopo jmitaa e lopo gubdaa meet talking and well wishing from lognet 92 i greetings and salutations from bon voyage to may the force be with you 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 nepo canjmi ji vi ne logle barcu from lognet 92 3 the start of a mystery story which takes place in a sleazy bar in loglandia followed by a discussion of logical connectives the a disease or is there an indefinite doctor in the house from lognet 93 1 how to translate the english indefinite article a into loglan 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 the logician by m randall holmes 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 92 3 this column can be vaguely summarized as the problem of sets 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 sau la lodtua from lognet 94 1 an outline of what la lodtua is up to rather than a formal column sau la lodtua from lognet 94 3 the logic of respectively a list of lognet articles many of the articles at loglan org were originally published in the loglan institute s newsletter lognet this list of the contents of each issue of lognet has links to the main articles available here as well as to additional articles of more historical interest more links will be added as time permits miscellaneous some people are meeting roughly once a week to practice speaking typing actually so far in the online environment second life if you would like to participate you can join the loglan conversation group within second life and send a message to leslie beaumont aka randall holmes meetings have generally been on saturday or sunday at 9 00 am pdt each week s meeting is announced on the mailing list 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 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 where are they now department in the 1970s sheldon linker created the first machine grammar for loglan more recently he s written software which he says i can talk to and get well reasoned answers back from it s not loglan but a special form of english which sheldon calls jcb english named after our founder there is more information on his website rex may s cartoons which appeared in the pages of lognet have been collected here for macintosh users your mac can actually speak loglan for you with our highly experimental loglan text to speech page alas it doesn t work as well as it used to but this could be a starting point for a proper text to speech engine information on other constructed languages our ceo randall holmes has a personal loglan page loglan sightings loglan is mentioned briefly in the novel the moon is a harsh mistress by robert a heinlein a character in the web comic spare parts is majoring in artificial languages contact information more official information on loglan is available from the loglan center inc c o randall holmes 1304 s gourley st boise idaho 83705 u s a informal questions and comments about loglan or about the content of these pages can be directed to the author of this page at mailing list there is also an electronic mailing list for general discussion and answering the questions of beginning loglanists you can subscribe at the mailing list s web page this list is often rather quiet but people are listening so if you have a question speak up last modified on february 2 2026