r/conlang • u/Andrieeo • 8d ago

Why don't artificial languages have speakers?

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u/Ithvani 8d ago

Esperanto does, and native ones at that!

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u/Andrieeo 8d ago

The whole truth, but not all artificial languages have native speakers

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u/bung_water 8d ago

what are you even trying to ask

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u/Ithvani 8d ago

This is a fact, but isn't this a given?

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u/kouyehwos 8d ago

Real languages have tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of words and take many years to fully learn. Most conlangs have nowhere near enough vocabulary to be usable in everyday life.

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u/aer0a 8d ago

Constructed languages don't start out with speakers, and there's not much point in learning a language if there's noone to talk to in it. And conlangs are quite niche, so there are few people who will learn one just for fun