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by isidor3 3672 days ago
Ithkuil is my favorite conlang, it has an amazing amount of depth that can be presented in surprisingly few syllables. It was designed to be a sort of uber-language. Have the most amount of information in the least number of syllables while allowing absolutely no ambiguity. It also attempts to be somewhat tailored to map to how we naturally think about concepts, and a lot of information you have to get from context in languages like English are made explicit in the grammatical forms of the language. I think the grammar of it is really something special, however, it was never designed to be either learnable or really even speakable, which is a shame. I think given the right overcoat the grammar could form the base of a surprisingly usable language.