I was curious about the "More people now speak Klingon than Esperanto" thing, but from what I can tell it's emphatically not true. The number of fluent Esperant

I was curious about the "More people now speak Klingon than Esperanto" thing, but from what I can tell it's emphatically not true. The number of fluent Esperantists is somewhere in the tens or hundreds of thousands, whereas the number of fluent speakers of Klingon is closer to a few dozen. Here are some sources, including a particularly cool 2009 Salon article on Klingon, Esperanto and conlangs in general: http://www.salon.com/2009/06/03/invented_languages/ http://www.salon.com/2009/06/03/invented_languages/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080228012811AANf6H2 http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080228012811AA...