Mark wrote:
I certainly never expected that people would try to learn (say) Barakhinei...

Panu replied:
What's wrong with Barakhinei, then? :) You certainly seem to expect to some extent that people will try to learn Verdurian.

Mark replied:
There's nothing wrong with it-- in fact, linguistically, it has more interesting features and it's more consistent. I just figured it was more obscure.

And it also seems more daunting grammatically than Verdurian, at least to me -- especially its inflections, which seem to exhibit a fair amount of sound-shifting. (This is also a part of Ismaîn which looks difficult to master.)

Cheers,
Philip