On a completely separate note, one thing I love doing with conlangs for fictional societies is creating multiple sublanguages or modes for different kinds of situations.
For example, in many real languages, there's "polite" vs "casual". Some societies also take up an entire second language for their religious stuff-
In fiction, we can put that divide anywhere we want.
One language used exclusively for war, maybe. Or a mode used exclusively to talk to other Pokemon trainers.
It's fun.
Craig P
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