If digging into TKD’s sociolinguistic nuggets—like when it’s appropriate to say “nuqneH,” how the honorific suffix “-neS” softens commands, or why “-pu’/ -Du’/ -mey” mark different plurals—was your jam, you’ll love how Klingon for the Galactic Traveler turns those details into living culture. It unpacks sayings such as “bortaS bIr jablu’DI’ reH QaQqu’ nay’,” explores bridge protocol, drinking toasts like “Qapla’!,” and shows how rank and ritual shape real usage, not just the tidy tables you memorized.

Loved TKD’s systematized approach—OVS word order, the imperative prefixes (yI-, tI-), and the yes–no question suffix “-’a’,” all neatly slotted into suffix classes 1–9? A Gateway to Sindarin scratches the same itch for rigor. Salo walks you through Sindarin’s phonology, mutation rules, and historical development, parsing attested forms just as carefully as TKD parses Klingon verb morphology—only here it’s Elvish sound shifts and lenition charts instead of {-taH}, {-pu’}, and friends.

If TKD’s elegant mechanics—like how “-’a’” flips a clause into a question or how “nuqneH” functions pragmatically despite literally meaning “What do you want?”—gave you that heady aha!, In the Land of Invented Languages offers a grand tour of that same cerebral pleasure. Okrent traces Esperanto, Loglan/Lojban, Klingon (including interviews and fandom lore), and more, showing how design choices in morphology and syntax ripple into culture and community the way TKD’s affix classes shape Klingon expression.

Did you enjoy hopping around TKD—bouncing from a headword to related suffixes and usage notes, stitching meaning from entries like “Hegh” and idiomatic constructions? Dictionary of the Khazars turns that reading style into fiction. Presented as interlocking dictionary entries (Red, Green, and Yellow books), it invites you to flip through cross-references the way you navigated TKD’s lexemes, assembling a mythic history from the margins the same way you pieced context from Klingon examples.

If TKD’s precise levers—like aspect “-taH” versus completion “-pu’,” or the way OVS order forces you to reframe who does what—made you think about how language structures thought, Embassytown will thrill you. Miéville’s Ariekei speak a Language that can’t lie and must be voiced in paired mouths; human “Ambassadors” are engineered to produce it. As Avice Benner Cho witnesses, a single semantic innovation destabilizes a civilization—like watching one suffix class in TKD rewrite the rules of reality.