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[Mark Mandel]

That's a canard (quack!). Probably fewer than a hundred
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language#Speakers> people can
actually converse in Klingon (not including me, or just barely), compared
with ca. a hundred thousand
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto#Geography_and_demography> for
Esperanto (including me).

Okrand’s “Klingon Dictionary” has sold more than 300,000 copies, but as
Arika Okrent observes, a dictionary-buyer is not a language-speaker. She
estimates that a few thousand people know a little Klingon, several hundred
can read and write it, and perhaps a few dozen can speak it fluently.
(Excuse me, do you speak Klingon?
<http://www.salon.com/2009/06/03/invented_languages/> *Salon*, June 3, 2009)

Mark

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<http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/>


On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Geoffrey Steven Nathan <
geoffnathan at wayne.edu> wrote:

> According to Okrand's Wikipedia entry, he was working on Mutsun, a dialect
> =
> of Ohlone (a.k.a. Southern Costanoan).
>
> For other reasons I had occasion to look this up yesterday. Apparently
> it's=
>  the most widely spoken artificial language, according to an article
> someon=
> e sent me yesterday.
>
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