The Atlantean language ( Dig Adlantisag ) is a historically constructed, artistic language put together by Marc Okrand for Disney ’ s 2001 film Atlantis: The Lost Empire and associated media, The Atlantean language is therefore based both on historic reconstructions or realities as well as on the elaborate fantasy / science fiction of the Atlantis: The Lost Empire mythos.

Klingon was subsequently developed by Okrand into a full-fledged language.

For Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ( 1984 ) director Leonard Nimoy and writer-producer Harve Bennett wanted the Klingons to speak a proper language instead of made-up gibberish and so commissioned Okrand to develop the phrases Doohan had come up with into a full language.

Even though Marc Okrand has studied the indigenous languages of the Americas, the Klingon language is not based upon any of those languages.

Okrand himself has stated that a design principle of the Klingon language was dissimilarity to existing natural languages in general, and English in particular.

The language is displayed in both Latin and pIqaD fonts making this the first language course written in pIqaD and approved by CBS and Marc Okrand.

Learn Klingon a beginners language course for the Earth based Klingon by eurotalk and translated by Jonathan Brown ( a. k. a. qe ' San ) and Marc Okrand.

When initially developed, Paramount Pictures ( owners of the Star Trek franchise ) wanted the Klingon language to be guttural and harsh and Okrand wanted it to be unusual, so he selected sounds that combined in ways not generally found in other languages.

Later, professional linguists, particularly Marc Okrand, expanded Klingon into a fully constructed language with a working grammar.

Marc Okrand (; born 1948 ) is an American linguist and is most notable as the creator of the Klingon language, which he speaks.

More recently, Okrand created the Atlantean language for the Disney film Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

Translating Shakespeare into Klingon proved problematic because Marc Okrand had not created a verb for " to be " when he developed the language.

The Atlantean language is a constructed language created by Marc Okrand for Disney's film Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

The decision of this language being a possible " mother language " was actually a decision made by the script-writers of the movie, and not by Marc Okrand himself, who followed this presumption upon its creation.

To create this, Dr. Okrand took common characteristics of all world languages and applied them to the Proto-Indo-European language.

His main source of words ( roots and stems ) for the language is Proto-Indo-European, but Okrand also uses ancient Chinese, Biblical Hebrew, Latin and Greek languages, along with a variety of other ancient languages or ancient language reconstructions.

Later, Marc Okrand proceeded to flesh out the sparse vocabulary into a real language, complete with grammar rules and phonology, and went so far as to publish The Klingon Dictionary ; the Klingon Language Institute was created soon thereafter.

Deliberately designed by Marc Okrand to be " alien ", it has a number of typologically uncommon features.

Okrand enlarged the lexicon and developed grammar based on the original dozen words Doohan had created.

However, Klingon as described on television is often not entirely congruous with the Klingon developed by Okrand.

It was translated by Jonathan Brown and Okrand and uses the Hol-pIqaD TrueType font.

Only words and grammatical forms introduced by Marc Okrand are considered canonical Klingon by the KLI and most Klingonists.

Marc Okrand.

According to the DVD commentary of the film, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, actors Leonard Nimoy and Kirstie Alley, portraying Spock and Saavik respectively, spoke their lines in English, and later dubbed in alien dialogue ( at least partially designed by linguist Marc Okrand ) that corresponded with the movements of their mouths in the scene.

Okrand worked with Native American languages.

Okrand took a job at the National Captioning Institute, where he worked on the first closed-captioning system for hearing impaired television viewers.

While coordinating closed captioning for the Oscars award show in 1982, Dr. Okrand met the producer for the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Okrand taught undergraduate linguistics courses at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 1975 to 1978.

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