Portal:Constructed languages/Did you know/Suggestions

Suggested DYK candidates

...that Esperanto is the world's most widely spoken constructed language, with as many as 2 million speakers?
...that Láadan is language constructed especially for the use of women?
...that Volapük, a constructed language which once attracted thousands, now has, at most, 30 speakers?
...that Volapük nevertheless has its own Wikipedia?
...that Marc Okrand, who became famous as the creator of Klingon, also created the Atlantean language for the Disney film Atlantis: The Lost Empire?
...that J.R.R. Tolkien originally created his Middle-earth merely as a background for his constructed languages?
...that Brithenig is a language that shows how Vulgar Latin could have evolved if it had displaced Celtic in Great Britain?
...that Adjuvilo, although it was a full language, was merely created to help create dissent in the then-growing Ido movement?
...that Newspeak, used by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, is interpreted as a hidden critique against universal languages by some?
...that Winston Churchill initially supported Basic English as an international language, but was put off when he was told that "blood, toil, tears and sweat" translates as "blood, hard work, eyewash and body water"?
...that two different constructed languages have claimed the name Interlingua, and one the name Interlingue?
...that the earliest known constructed language, Lingua Ignota, was created by Hildegard of Bingen, who also acquired fame as a mystic, visionary, and composer of music?
...that language games like Pig Latin are also considered constructed languages, albeit not the best examples of the art?
...that during the mid 19th century the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints briefly advocated the use by its members of the Deseret alphabet in place of the Latin one?