LOGLAN

TABLE 4: Most-learnable Words

LOGLAN	ENGLlSH 0.28	CHINESE 0.25	HINDI 0.11	RUSSIAN 0.10	SPANISH 0.09	JAPANESE 0.06	FRENCH 0.06	GERMAN 0.05	SCORE 1.00
MATMA [MOTHER]	MOM MAM	MA MA	MATA MATA	MAT MAT	MAMA MAMA	OKOSAMA OKOSAMA	MAMAN MAMA	MUTTER MUTR	0.94
SUPTA [SOUP]	SOUP SUP	TANG TAN			SOPA SOPA	SUPU SUPU	SOUPE SUP	SUPPE ZUPA	0.76
BLANU [BLUE]	BLUE BLU	LAN LAN	NILA NILA	GALUBOI GALUBOI	AZUL ASUL		BLEU BLU	BLAU BLAU	0.76
RISMI [RICE]	RICE RAIS	Ml Ml		RIS R!S	ARROZ AROS		RIZ RIS	REIS RAIS	0.71
DERTU [EARTH .SOUL]	DIRT DRT	TU TO	DHARTI DARTI		TIERRA TIERA		TERRE TER	ERDE ERDA	0.71
TRELU [TRAIL]	RAIL REL	TIELU TIELU	REL REL	RIELS RIELS	BARRERA BARERA	RERU RERU	RALE RAL	RELING RELIN	0.71
VITCU [SEE]	VIEW VIU	CHOU TCOU		VID[lET] VID	VI VI		VISION VIZIO		0.67
PLUCI [PLEASE]	PLEASE PLIZ	SHI Cl	KHUSH KUG		PLAC[ER] PLAS-	TANOSHIMI TANOCIMI	PLAIfRE] PLE-	LUST LUST	0.65
FORLI [STRONG]	FORT FORT	LI u			FORTE FORTE		FORT FOR	FORT FOR	0.65
SORLU [EAR]	AURAL ORL	RH GU RGU		SLUM SLU	OREJA OREHA		OREILLE OREI	OHR OR	0.63
KLESI [CLASS]	CLASS KLAS	LEI LEI		KLASS KLAS	CLASE KLASE		CLASSE KLAS		0.65
GRODA [BIG]	GROSS GROS	DA DA		SHCHI- ROK[IOI] CTCIROK.	GRAND[E] GRAND-.		GROS GRO	GROSS GROS	0.65

MOST-LEARNABLE WORDS in Loglan have high "total learnability" scores measured in terms of the phonemes that compose the corresponding words in all of tlie eight natural languages. Each natural word is respelled in letters representing Loglan speech sounds, with the letters in bold face indicating the speech sounds shared with the Loglan word. As this table indicates, the common features of English, Spanish, French and German, which are

spoken by 52 per cent of the target population, predominate in the determination of these high-scoring Loglan words. Because of its great number of speakers and its typically short words, Chinese also makes a contribution, Russian and Japanese show up with the smallest frequency. Hindi, with its short, consonant-rich words, is intermediate despite its slight similarity to the other Indo-European languages.