Re: Average life of a conlang

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 20:24, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> _tlhIngan Hol might be considered international in that
> users of the language do not all come from the same nation and do not all
> have the same L1 (I think).
True.

While most speakers have L1 = English (it helps that the authoritative
material on the language is all in English; in particular, the German
translation of _The Klingon Dictionary_ is said to be atrocious), off
the top of my head, I can think of four proficient speakers of Klingon
with other L1s: Lieven "Qu'var valer" Litaer (Flemish), Kathrin
"nI'taQ 'IwtlhutlhwI'" Sievert (German), a Swiss German speaker whose
name escapes me just now [*](and who happens to be blind), and
Agnieszka "'ISqu'" Solska (Polish).

Cheers,
Philip

[*] A bit of digging around my photos dug up her _nom de klingon_, at
least: Senara.
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>