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Conlangs, or Constructed Languages
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Maybe this is a little bit of a cop-out, but I say if you want to learn a language, whether it has a massive community of speakers, small isolated enclaves of speakers, or none at all, you should go ahead and learn it. There's no real downside unless you factor in the opportunity cost, that being you could have learned another, more "useful" language in the meantime, but would you have done so? Probably not, right? So go ahead and do whatever pleases.
Concerning lingua universalis, I'm not sure if something like that is possible or even desirable. And I'm not sure hand-wringing over "gendered language" or Eurocentricity are worth your trouble either. These are incidental aspects of language, constructed or not. Just my two cents.