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If you created a language how could you popularize it?

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It would be extremely hard. How many people speak Esperanto?

It's not necessary to be able to speak the invented language in order for it to gain popularity. Esperanto was created by intellectuals who miscalculated the evolution of language. Anthony Burgess invented language in A Clockwork Orange, which was made into a movie and has a cult like popularity as does the Klingon language invented by writers of the series Star Trek. Pig Latin, which seems to be an ancient language found by children generation after generation, that think it is new. If you want to create a language and popularize it, you will do so by creating a world with characters people can relate to and come to care about. The popularity of the language will come after the popularity of the characters who speak it has been established.

If budgets, realism, and the possibility of global thermonuclear war due to geopolitical conflict are not your concern: the best way to popularize a language is to either secede from your country or create a micronation, declare war, actually win it (extremely unlikely, though it has happened, and you might be in for a chance if you've secretly stashed alien technologies in your basement), then declare your language the new official language. Assuming you become the ruler, of course. Or you could hijack all the television stations and the entire internet and all publications and force them to print in your language. Or teach it at a local orphanage. Or advertise it to parents as something that will benefit the child which will both popularize it and be an excellent earner. Or create thousands of blogs writing about it then ask Wikipedia to feature it, and give the language its own Wikipedia. But the above is more practical, of course. You could just casually drop phrases in whatever conlang you're thinking of into conversations which will prompt requests by people for the meaning, and thus perpetuating the cycle until it all converges into an entire new language.

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