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[ysengrin]

The Language of Avatar with Paul R. Frommer (audio; seems to be streaming only). Another article on the language is here.

A World All Their Own by Nancy Lutkehaus, consulting anthropologist on Avatar

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[schnee.livejournal.com]

Here's a download link: http://media.scpr.org/audio/upload/2009/12/22/lang.mp3 :)

[ysengrin.livejournal.com]

Thankee :)

[schnee.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. :)

[silvermane3.livejournal.com]

Did Star trek already do an alien language with Klingon? I don't know what to feel about a whole fictional world when there are so many languages, cultures, and "primitive cultures" we can learn from right here on Earth. It is interesting that James Cameron went so far but how many sci fi and fiction authors do the same thing?

[ysengrin.livejournal.com]

Dr. Marc Okrand developed a Klingon language for one of the Star Trek movies, and it took off with the Klingon fanbase. I think there are more Klingon speakers than Esperanto speakers nowadays.

Star Wars, on the other paw, made liberal use of existing Earth languages mixed with gibberish.

The original Land of the Lost had two created languages.

It's jokingly said that Tolkien had created so many languages for fun that he finally felt the need to write a story or two to hang them off of.

Making languages is second only to world building in sci-fi (and there's just as much of a spread in how well it's done).

Having said all that, I'd like to point out that I don't expect to be picking up more than a word or two -- if that -- of Na'vi.

[silvermane3.livejournal.com]

I am not sure if this is true but I heard that Klingon is considered a real language because certain mental disorder patients speak it more fluentantly than English or their native language.

*nods* Oh I should hope not, if people start talking Na'vi I might go insane. LOL

[dustwing.livejournal.com]

the books I ordered came in today. What a fascinating world. At the end of the art book they mention that working on it was dangerous in a way, because so many of them didnt want to leave when the project was over.