Table of loglangs and quasi-loglangs
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name | year | major type | speakable | family | SSM strategy (word level) | compounding system | serial predicate semantics | basic word order | syntax control | other features |
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Loglan | 1955 | loglang | yes | Loglanian | clusters, stress, pauses | decomposable blends and interfixing | vague, contextual | SVO but flexible | parenthesis-like control words | — |
Lojban | 1987 | loglang | yes | Loglanian | clusters, stress, pauses | decomposable blends and interfixing | vague, contextual | SVO but flexible | parenthesis-like control words | — |
Gua\spi | 1989 | loglang | yes | Guaspian | A+B+ chunks | through serial predicates | compositional | flexible | tones move across layers of nesting | — |
Liva | 1995 | loglang | yes | its own | A+B+ chunks | nondecomposable concatenation | — | VSO | — | — |
The Toaq family | 2014, 2017 | loglang | yes | Guaspian | A+B+ chunks, tones | nondecomposable concatenation | compositional | VSO with topic-fronting | tones indicate syntax of predicate words | — |
Ceqli | 1990(?) | quasi-loglang IAL | yes | Ceqlian | A+B+ chunks | through serial predicates | vague | SVO but flexible | word-order-based | — |
Xorban | 2012 | loglang | yes | Xorbanian | A+B+ chunks, clusters | decomposable interfixing | separate predicates | SOV | — | predicate words contain explicit variables (freely assignable polypersonal agreement markers) |
Latejami | 1995 | machine translation interlingua | yes | Morneauvian | A+B+ consonant patterns | through periphrasis | — | VSO | explicitly marked parts of speech | extensive derivational morphology |
The Ithkuil family | 2004, 07, 11, 20 | engelang | yes | its own | pitch accent, templatic morphology | root incorporation, affixation | grammatical-case-based | (VSO) | PoS marking | — |
Eberban | 2020 | loglang | yes | its own | ? | decomposable concatenation | separate predicates | VV | parenthesis-like control words | no nouns, predicates (verbs) are chained and share implicit "noun variables" |
Xextan | 2022 | loglang | yes | Ceqlian | pitch accent | decomposable concatenation | compositional | VSO but flexible | parenthesis-like control words | all subordinators may take either long syntactic scope (requiring termination) or short (auto-terminating) |