‘Saluton’: the surprise return of Esperanto

Re:‘Saluton’: the surprise return of Esperanto by XR0CSWV3h3kZWg on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @06:42PM (#16019089)

For those that found this comment intriguing I'd recommend the book "In the land of invented languages". It covers a number of conlangs. Lojban seems quite interesting, I've been meaning to start learning it as well as exploring it as adapting it into a programming language that can be spoken and used to convey general ideas.

Toki pona is fun. I was trying to get my partner to learn it so we could have an obscure way to communicate simple things. Depending on the company switching to spanish (although our proficiency is pretty low) is sometimes effective.

I'd love to keep abreast of interesting conlangs, are there any communities you'd recommend?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:‘Saluton’: the surprise return of Esperanto by Karrot_Kream on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @07:02PM (#16019208)

Hm while "In the land of invented languages" was a fun read, I found the book to be overly Western natlang focused (I know many more natlangs than I do conlangs, but a lot of my natlangs come from different language families, so I am aware of the large conceptual gap between languages).

As far as keeping abreast conlangs, there's reddit's r/conlangs that's a lot of fun. Lojban and Toki Pona are very popular there.

[ Parent | on HN ]