[Edling] To learn Klingon or Esperanto: What invented languages can teach us

[Francis M. Hult via Edling]

Knowable Magazine

To learn Klingon or Esperanto: What invented languages can teach us

Most languages develop through centuries of use among groups of people. But
some have a different origin: They are invented, from scratch, from one
individual’s mind. Familiar examples include the international language
Esperanto, the Klingon language from “Star Trek” and the Elvish tongues
from “The Lord of the Rings.”

The activity isn’t new — the earliest recorded invented language was by
medieval nun Hildegard von Bingen — but the Internet now allows much wider
sharing of such languages among the small communities of people who speak
and create them.

Full text:
https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2021/what-invented-languages-can-teach-us
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