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Can someone list a few popular constructed languages (maybe comparing them to programming languages)? I'd only heard of Lojban and Esperanto before reading this.

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Try http://www.reddit.com/r/conlangs for discussion and lists of languages. There are many subreddits for specific languages. For example, Toki Pona [1] and Lojban [2].

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona [2] http://www.reddit.com/r/lojban

Toki Pona is a minimalist language with a bit of a following. It has 120 root words and tries to build all concepts based on those.

Loglan is a predecessor and inspiration to Lojban.

Slovio is the Slavic version of Esperanto.

Dothraki, Elvish (Quenya, Sindarin), Klingon, Na'vi are constructed languages from popular novels/movies.

One novel thing about Tolkien's languages: he constructed a root language (like proto-indo-european) and etymologies for them. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Etymologies_(Tolkien) )

> Slovio is the Slavic version of Esperanto.

Someone doesn't understand the point of Esperanto.

Regardless of the point, the truth is Esperanto's lexicon is mostly inspired by Romance languages whereas Slovio's lexicon is mostly inspired by Slavic languages. It's not that shocking of a comparison.

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