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{{Quote|text=Ithkuil isn't so much a language as it is a monument to human ingenuity and design. Over a quarter century in the making, Ithkuil is a complete language (a daunting task, as any conlanger knows), and a remarkable achievement. It's the outcome of a specific set of design goals that have been satisfactorily realized. I mean, wow! That's pretty incredible in and of itself. [...] The website that John has created for Ithkuil is a model for all language creators to follow, and a gift to the language creation community. It's clear, readable, organized well, filled with examples (each with an orthographic, romanized, schematic and translated variant—and many with an audio file attached. It's funny: when you tell someone else that you've created a language, the first thing they want to hear is what it sounds like, and yet many of us create, essentially, written languages that sound alien to their creators when spoken with gusto!), and is appropriately redundant. It really allows the uninitiated to fully grasp what Ithkuil is, which is something that many of our websites (I can think of an example or two) fail to do.|sign=''David J. Peterson''|source=Smiley Award}}