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<li>There is some basic data at <a href="https://www.ethnologue.com/language/epo/21" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ethnologue</a> for Esperanto. </li>
<li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_language#External_links" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Font of All Knowledge</a> lists some statistics for other invented languages (Hungarian &amp; Russian census data).</li>
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<p>Not much, but a (small) start.</p>

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2018-08-21T18:34:12.760Z
2018-08-21T18:34:12.760Z
elemtilas
<p>For any particular language maybe 1-2 to dozens. The best way to find out would be to collect as many writing samples as possible that have been posted to the internet. Pick some arbitrary cut off for what counts as "speaking" the language for length. When I did this for toki pona, there were maybe a few hundred people who could write at least a few paragraphs.</p>

<p>Na'vi and Klingon probably have at least a handful to few dozen each. I don't know of any corpus gathering projects for those languages.</p>

<p>The number of people who have purchases learning materials, such as the Klingon dictionary, is thousands of times higher than the number of people who invested the time to learn the language. I look forward so seeing more stats out of Duolingo for the Game of Thrones Languages and Klingon.</p>

<p>As for the acid test of fluency- natives who learned the language from their parents, maybe one or two. (Excluding Esperanto natives- there are a lot of those)</p>

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2018-08-22T15:43:38.113Z
2018-08-22T15:43:38.113Z
MatthewMartin
<p>What are some real world data (e.g., from census data, membership data, visitors of conlang related events, other estimates) on active speakers of constructed languages?</p>

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What are some real world data on the numbers of speakers of constructed languages?
# What are some real world data on the numbers of speakers of constructed languages?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-08-14)

What are some real world data (e.g., from census data, membership data, visitors of conlang related events, other estimates) on active speakers of constructed languages?

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-08-21. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

* There is some basic data at [Ethnologue](https://www.ethnologue.com/language/epo/21) for Esperanto.
* The [Font of All Knowledge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_language#External_links) lists some statistics for other invented languages (Hungarian & Russian census data).

Not much, but a (small) start.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2018-08-22. Score: 1

For any particular language maybe 1-2 to dozens. The best way to find out would be to collect as many writing samples as possible that have been posted to the internet. Pick some arbitrary cut off for what counts as "speaking" the language for length. When I did this for toki pona, there were maybe a few hundred people who could write at least a few paragraphs.

Na'vi and Klingon probably have at least a handful to few dozen each. I don't know of any corpus gathering projects for those languages.

The number of people who have purchases learning materials, such as the Klingon dictionary, is thousands of times higher than the number of people who invested the time to learn the language. I look forward so seeing more stats out of Duolingo for the Game of Thrones Languages and Klingon.

As for the acid test of fluency- natives who learned the language from their parents, maybe one or two. (Excluding Esperanto natives- there are a lot of those)


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