nuq-Daq yuch Dapol?

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1550650]

Comments

[neuralbuddha.livejournal.com]

According to someone I know with a PhD in linguistics, Klingon is the better crafted language and has more speakers.

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

I can't speak for how well crafted it is but Esperanto has orders of magnitude more speakers.

[andrewducker]

100,000 - 2 million for Esperanto (presumably depending on the meaning of "fluent". Klingon - 12.

[neuralbuddha.livejournal.com]

I'd ask for a source on this but I could probably track down six or seven speakers on my own. Hell, I could download a phrasebook and learn myself.

[neuralbuddha.livejournal.com]

And if it's QI, they change their answers from week to week. Try watching back to back repeats if you don't believe me.

[andrewducker]

"All the fiuent Klingon speakers can comfortably go out to dinner together," Lawrence Schoen, director of the Klingon Language Institute, cheerfully admits. There are about a dozen of them;

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I don't depend on QI for my information. Not that I've seen an episode in a couple of years.

You may be able to track down 6/7 people who can speak a few phrases - how many of them are actually fluent?