[tlhIngan Hol] Number of speakers

[Lieven L. Litaer]

You are certainly right, it must be clear what a "fluent" speaker is.
But it feels like Lawrence did not make that clear in his first
interview when he made that statement.

In my opinion, a fluent speaker does not mean to be perfect or know each
word from the book. I regard fluent in a way that one can have a basic
conversation about general topics, and one is capable of understanding
an explanation of an unknown word. Talking more technical (only for
Klingon): Basics of grammar should be understood by 80% and the
knowledge of vocabulary should be above 60%, excluding specialized
vocabulary.  (most fluent speakers of English probably have never heard
of puffins, so why should a Klingon speaker know the definition of a
neSngech?)

Although it's interesting, I think that for the common knowledge of "the
world", it is not important to make a difference between "speaking
fluency" and "writing fluency". After all, it's very difficult to test
that. I have encountered people with whom I could communicate in Klingon
in a real life speed written chat, but speaking in person was very
difficult. Still I see those as fluent speakers.

Talking numbers: The Facebook group tlhIngan Hol jatlhwI'pu' has almost
100 members. I suppose most of them do speak Klingon at least a little.
Learn Klingon has 3,000 members, but those are learners.

Are there no other ways to find an official number of Klingon speakers?

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Lieven L. Litaer
aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany"
https://tlhInganHol.com
https://klingon.wiki/En/AliceInWonderland