Conlangs - languages made, not evolved

1. A super-quick look at conlangs

4. For fun

5. For use in literature, movies, etc.

6. For linguistic or philosophical research, training, or experimentation

8. Now spoken by a million or two people

9. Up to a thousand native speakers, the most famous being George Soros

11. Spoken by somewhere between 19 and 2,500

12. One native speaker, who subsequently chose to stop speaking it

14. Also with their own writing system

16. Invented by James Cooke Brown (Loglan) and Robert und Nora LeChevalier, with the Lojban community

18. For example: tavli X1 X2 X3 X4

19. = X1 [speaker] talks to X2 [hearer] about X3 [topic] in X4 [language]

24. Pull ̀ uíqišx ma’wałg eřyaufënienˉ päţwïç auxë’yaļt xne’wïļta’şui tua kit öllá yaqazmuiv li’yïrzişka’ p’amḿ aìlo’wëčča šu’yehtaş

26. Simple phonology and grammar; tiny vocabulary (about 123 words), but surprisingly expressive

30. They came from the path of the sunrise and came to the land of Schinar and stayed there.

31. They said: Come! Let's work with stone. Heat it.

32. People said: Come! Let's make many buildings and a big tower. The top of the tower is in heaven. Our name will become important. We don't want this: we are in many different lands.

33. God came down and saw the city and the tower.

36. nimi pi ma tomo ni li Pape tan ni: jan sewi Jawe li pakala e toki pi jan ali.

38. I want to come down and want to ruin the language of these people. I want this: People don't know the language of other people.

39. God achieved this: people are in many lands and cannot build the building.

40. The name of this city is Babel because God ruined the language of all people.

41. God sent the people to many lands from the city of Babel.