As for Kamakawi, it doesn't have an online dictionary, no, nor will any of my languages ever have one. I really think they're a waste of time, since none of the online dictionaries I've ever seen are as thorough/rigorous as the dictionaries I keep on my computer, and I don't even think mine are sufficient. Plus, I go through and add definitions, change definitions, change words, etc., all the time. I just don't think it would be practical. I was thinking of doing the following, though:

• Adding the Swadesh list for all my languages (Wikipedia has a good ready-made table to do this).
• Adding a language map (this was an idea I got when I found a language map in an odd shop on the Hawaiian language. It folds up like a map, but it has lists of words separated into categories: Animals, foods, greetings, cultural stuff, etc. I thought this would be neat to do for my languages, though I'm not sure how exactly to format it yet.

• Dublex Roots
• Dublex Lexical Outline
• English-Dublex Roots
• Dublex Compounds Dictionary

I frequently visit this site. I've been working on my own model language for some time now, and I think I'm ready to post it on the Web. A long time ago I made a site for it, but that was when the lexicon was small, and since then the entire language has undergone major revisions. I was wondering a few things before I submit it.

1. First off, do you know of any good free services for making sites?
2. Second, what can I do to make sure no one steals my work?
3. And also, I'm curious as to how many words you think a language should have to be really worth communicating with? So far I have 1616, not counting every form of each verb or inflected noun.

Glad you enjoy the site! Some answers:

1. GeoCities, Tripod and Angelfire are the most popular free sites among conlangers.
2. You own an implicit copyright to your language. You can make it explicit by providing a notice of copyright. It's unlikely anyone is going to copy it. There are thousands of other languages to copy from, after all.
3. Well, Kali-sise has over 5,000 words, yet that it still wasn't enough when I wrote the Kali-sise Babel Text (oops!), but if you make sure you have enough common roots then you can make new words as you need them. After all Esperanto only started out with about 800 words, yet that proved enough to grow with the times (it has perhaps 50,000 today).

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Year	New Quenya Learners	New Language Inventors
1999	8	24
2000	18	32
2001	20	45
2002	147	87
2003	246	65

I really enjoyed The Lord of the Rings and as a translator myself the idea of learning Elvish does appeal to me in a weird sort of way! I think that it is really great that these children want to learn it, because once you have acquired the skills of language learning, it is much easier to pick up another language, thus what they see as a fun pastime could actually turn out to be a big help to them in the future. - Suzy Cox, Xalapa, Veracruz, México

Fun though it may be, I'm always a bit concerned when I hear that someone can speak fluent Elvish/Klingon etc instead of another more vocationally and/or socially advantageous second language like French or German... - Muzzy, Edinburgh, Scotland

Great. Will be really handy when these kids grow up into the real world and need to get jobs. - Helen, Wirral, UK

What an absurd idea. Most of the children I come across can't even speak English, never mind French or German or any other useful language. If grunting is a major element of elf vocabulary, the children should be brilliant at it. - John Buckley, Reading, UK

For anyone speaking in any of the more than 1,000 artificial tongues - languages carved out of someone's word-wise imagination - these are very good times.

`The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,' the film to beat for Best Picture at Sunday night's Oscars, gives wide exposure to the elf languages of Quenya and Sindarin - collectively known as "Elvish" - concocted by `Ring' author and linguist J.R.R. Tolkien.

Klingon, the guttural tongue of war and weaponry from `Star Trek,' is the subject of a new documentary, `Earthlings,' to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

And later this year, the Esperantomobilo -- a team of six speakers of Esperanto, one of the oldest invented languages and the most widespread -- will be barnstorming the country extolling the joy of saying "saluton," their version of "hello."

It's just a little taste of sweet victory for invented-language fans, many of whom are linguists, philologists, or amateur enthusiasts who've encountered everything from curiosity and ribbing from onlookers to government censure.