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There was an article about Ithkuil a while back in the New Yorker [0]. It's a funny read. The most successful constructed language remains Esperanto, I believe.

• pmoriarty 3y ago
  Doesn't Klingon have more speakers than Esperanto?
  • ithkuil 3y ago
    it sounds like one of those things which people wish they were true but are likely not. There are 10k fluent esperanto speakers and an order of magnitude more "active speakers". According to http://klingon.wiki/En/FluentSpeakers http://klingon.wiki/En/FluentSpeakers there are ~30 fluent klingon speakers My father is a fluent esperanto speaker. He's in the 10k group. I can understand the language a bit passively. I'm among 1 million people who can. There are 10 million people who have learned a bit of esperanto in their lives. I don't think kingon numbers are nowhere close to that, but I only found a reference to the fluent klingon speakers (the 20-50 of them)
    • zarzavat 3y ago
      Also Esperanto has native speakers, i.e. children who grew up speaking Esperanto from an early age. It even has second generation native speakers: native speakers whose parents were also native speakers. Klingon has nothing like that.