The creation of a new conlang, even if a few people end up speaking it fluently, cannot offset the loss of languages that had been passed down between countless generations of parents and children. However, in my view, these odd artworks have a similar kind of wonder to them as the likes of Ubykh and Tuyuca, French and Mandarin. Consider: they provide affordances of expression that can be at least as intriguing and illuminating as natlangs; they bring together communities for whom a particular language has emotional resonance; they also offer opportunities for broadening scientific understanding. Studies on native speakers of Esperanto have shed light on how a language learned natively only from non-native speakers evolves. Viossa, a conlang created entirely through unplanned, emergent interaction between speakers with no shared language to start, parallels the development of creole languages from pidgins and exhibits rich variation among speakers. The fact that even John Quijada has not been able to fully master any version of his masterpiece gives us at least some vague indication of what might be the outer limits of manageable morphological complexity. Or perhaps some latter-day Cicero will come along who will extemporize elegantly in Ithkuil and prove us wrong.
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