[wyager]

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.

[doublec]

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

[mchaver]

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.

[dunham]

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) )

[iLoch]

> Slovio is the Slavic version of Esperanto.

Someone doesn't understand the point of Esperanto.

[mchaver]

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.