[tlhIngan Hol] tlhIngan Hol DajatlhtaHvIS nItlhejpu' 'Iv? / Counting conversant speakers

[Iikka Hauhio]

I can name 10 (plus myself) who have participated at qa'vIn qep and jawmeH qep who I can have a Klingon conversation with.

Then there are multiple people who I haven't personally discussed with but who I assume can speak Klingon. I think the 20-30 people number sounds quite correct.

fergusq

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On Sunday, April 23rd, 2023 at 18.03, De'vID via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:51 AM De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When people find out I speak Klingon, I am sometimes asked (as I'm
>> sure you all are) how many people in the world can carry out a
>> conversation in it. Previously I've given an answer like "about
>> 20-30", which is what the Internet claims. [...]
>
> Following up on a thread I started a decade (!) ago. At the time, we sort-of-confirmed the number of "20-30" people who could carry out a conversation in Klingon. (We didn't really prove it, but we weren't really able to prove there were more, and the range seems in the ballpark.)
>
> Since then, though, I've had several more conversations with people who learned Klingon through Duolingo. I wonder, then, should the number of people who can converse in Klingon be revised to a much higher range? Have others also had conversations with people who learned Klingon through Duolingo, or other means?
>
> (Aside: An interesting observation is that Duolingo speakers have a dialect: because arbitrary vocabulary choices were made in Duolingo where there are equally valid ways to say something, Duolingo speakers will use the words and grammar favoured by the course.)
>
> OTOH, maybe some speakers who were included in the original 20-30 count have dropped out of their interest in Klingon and can't hold a conversation any more.
> --
>
> De'vID
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