Questions tagged [speech-communities]
For questions about speech communities of constructed languages.
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How many literatures?
I believe or assume that Volapük, Esperanto, Ido, Interlingua, Interlingue, and Klingon each have at least a few translations of important literature such as the Bible or Hamlet. What other ...
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Sona: how complete it is and how alive it is?
I find the basic ideas of Sona very appealing, but, from what I see in the web, it is not, by far, as popular as Esperanto or Lojban or other well-known conlangs. Therefore my question: Is it a ...
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Did a majority of followers of Ido indeed switch over to Occidental?
The Wikipedia article on Occidental/Interlingue says (in this version):
According to the Occidental magazine Cosmoglotta in 1928, a majority of Ido adherents took up Occidental in place of Ido.
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How many active Klingon speakers are there?
I am well-aware of the fact that some people use Klingon in conversions at special conventions and events.
Is there an estimate about the number of Klingon speakers and how many of them are there?
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Is Toki Pona a fast language?
There are well-known and notable differences in speed for natural languages: While a fast language like Spanish is spoken at a speed of about 6–7 syllables per second, a slow language like German, ...
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What are some real world data on the numbers of speakers of constructed languages?
What are some real world data (e.g., from census data, membership data, visitors of conlang related events, other estimates) on active speakers of constructed languages?
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Are there speech communities for Tolkien's Elvish languages?
Has anyone tried to put one of Tolkien's Elvish languages Sindarin or Quenya into everyday conversational use? I can imagine fan groups doing this, but I can also imagine big problems with the ...
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Why learn constructed languages? [closed]
I understand why create conlangs - they are sometimes needed for world of a book or game.
But... why learn them?
If most people in the world know normal languages and speak them, we can communicate ...
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By what criteria can we say that a conlang has a functional speech community?
On another question I commented that I doubted that if Lojban had a functional speech community that its purity would last very long.
By what criteria can we say that a conlang has a functional ...
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