I really like this dude's videos. The way he deals with some pretty advanced concepts of linguistics and makes them understandable is great.
On the subject of conlangs themselves, one interesting point about Klingon is that it has a rather inflexible OSV order (like English has a rather inflexible SVO order), which, like was said in the video, incredibly rare. There are many languages out there that have no fixed word order (like Latin), but conventions used by speakers of it will inevitably gravitate to SOV or SVO. You could very well say that having the subject first in a sentence is hardwired into human psychology, because 87% of languages that exist in the world put the subject first, with a further 9% being VSO, leaving a measly 4% that put the object before the subject.
In short, Klingon having the object first is a very small thing that does a lot to make the language less relatable to literally almost every living person.
Should have left Dothraki out of the ending... Because "There is no word for thank you in Dothraki"•
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