John Clifford
Natural languages, if they are weird enough, e.g., Basque, said to be the hardest to learn.
Looking at suggested languages, aUI has little internet support but a real book, toki pona has a good community going and some Internet support and an interesting creator, if you can catch het. And don’t forget Loglan and Lojban. Dothraki also seems to be building well.
Literary conlangs outside of a few big cases (Tolkien, Caves, Elgin) are a poor lot, merely uggamumble with lots of qs and odd clusters. Even Lewis, who could do better, is very skimpy — mainly names, as is usually the case.

November 8th, 2011

http://conlangery.com/2011/11/08/we-need-help-again-another-poll-and-some-more/

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John Clifford’s pageHere are traditional specimens of the languages I am going to talk about (and will chat about).

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Toki pona (Sonja Elen Kisa, 2001)

Minimalist language for clarifying thought by reducing to the fundamental notions. Also meant to display Daoist simplicity and to promote a positive attitude.

Uses only a,e,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,s,t,u,w, /j/=y otherwise standard, but very loosely defined, i.e., each covers a wide phonetic range by position but without overlap (except syllable final /n/ is m before /p/). Syllables (C)V(n), C omitted only in first syllable (which are stressed), no /n,m/ after /n/, no /ji/, /wo/, /wu/, /ti/. Total vocabulary of 118 words. SVO (no rearrangement) and NA (no subordinate clauses).

mama pi mi mute

mama pi mi mute o
sina lon sewi kon.
o nimi sina li sewi en pona.
o ma sina li kama.
o jan li pali e wile sina en lon sewi kon en lon ma.
o sina pana lon tenpo suno ni e moku tawa mi.
o weka e pali ike mi, sama la mi weka e pali ike pi jan ante.
o pana ala e wile ike tawa mi.
o awen e mi weka tan ike.
Ni li nasin.
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https://dedalvs.com/misc/clifford-lordsprayer.pdf

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Toki Pona possible etymons
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John Clifford

A few well-known (and possibly even correct) etymologies for some shadow words:
powe “false, lie, imitation” FR faux
leko “block, suare , cube” Lego (TM) a toy building block
pake “block (vt), stop, prevent” EN “block"
tuli “three” EN three (a bad job, ‘si’ is better)
po “four” EN four

John Clifford

Typo: ‘lape’ “sleep”
‘li’ and ‘la’ are unrelated in Eo, best taken as a priori
‘linja’ in Finnish is a railroad line and so directly from French
Lojban {clupa} is “loop”, “hole” is {kevna}
‘nasau’ is still dubious, even the given source only gets it once in four shots.
‘pana’ doesn’t fit well with history, but seems firm.
‘unpa’ don’t forget EN ”hump”
‘kipisi’ SW “slice”
‘majuno’ “old” fr EO ‘maljuno’ “unyoung”
‘apeja’ (may it never become active) FN ha”pea” (umlauts don’t work on my machine without needless messing about)
‘kapila’ “brown, grey” has no story.
‘kan’ “with” (accompaniment) fr SP (etc) con (if ‘poka’ dies)
‘kijetasantakalu’ FN kierteishäntäkarhu (I know, but I had this one handy) “kinkajou”
‘ko’ given as Cantonese gou2 “paste”
‘monsuta’ JP monsuta “monster” (<EN)
‘pata’ “kin” no data
‘pi’ from TP bilong is doubtful, more likely a priori then ex post facto, influenced by “of”
‘pan’ from FR pain or SP pan are older claims.

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First Language Creation Conference John Clifford Handout 2006

http://dedalvs.com/misc/clifford-handout.pdf

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Second Language Creation Conference 2007

http://dedalvs.conlang.org/dl/lcc2program.pdf

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