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What are your favorite conlangs?
I saw this post. And it reminded me of a hobby I haven't paid much attention to for a while. Apparently there are at least two people who are moderately fluent at Toki Pona, soon to be joined by a third.
In the meantime, I was wondering what conlangs you find to be interesting or unique?
Edit - Also, do you speak any conlangs?
Well, my favorites are:
Toki Pona - minimal vocabulary, lots of compound words
Lojban - Language without the irregularities
Ithkuil - a language with a focus on subtlety of meaning
and
aUI - a language designed to be phonomorphic, a fake word meaning that the sounds aare the meanings of two words
I like conlangs which push the boundaries of language while still remaining practical.
Solresol - the musical language
In general, I tend to lean towards the older conlangs, from the time before mass media and the Internet established English as the de facto universal language. Back then there was (at least perceived as) a real chance one of these conlangs could become a universal second language, and they were designed with that in mind. More modern conlangs are probably technically better, but they're designed more as theoretical exercises with no practical use in mind, since everyone involved know there is zero chance of dethroning English as the universal language.
Definitely, Klingon (tlhIngan Hol).
I cannot say I speak it but I definitely have an idea.
I also have some idea about Quenya and Sindarin.