Alienese has two forms; a simple substitution cipher cracked by viewers from clues hidden in the opening titles and throughout episodes and a complex, mathematical autokey cipher which took years to completely deconstruct.
The more complex form of Alienese is used in the show as the official language of the Nibblonians — a race of super-intelligent and adorable aliens with voracious appetites. Avatar director James Cameron wanted to give his race of beautiful blue aliens a fully developed culture, including language.
Linguist Dr. It was designed to be easy enough for the writers and actors to learn and pronounce, but have no similarity to any single human language. It is a fully working, learnable language. But even before George R. J R R Tolkien. Tolkien was one of the best linguists, being able to speak:. It was designated as the language of Arda on Middle Earth.
When it was conceived, it was believed to be a language solely for Elves. But now, it has taken a life of its own, and humans too, now speak Sindarin! It too was meant to be a language of the Elves in his legendarium. But now, many humans have taken to learning Quenya. Valyrian actually refers to several languages, including High Valyrian and Old Valyrian. Duolingo recently announced that they will be offering High Valyrian on their platform. He wanted a the fictional language in his novel to be a Russian-sounding variant of English.
This is evident in the language itself. Newspeak is one of the greatest fictional languages. It was created, not by a linguist, but one of the most influential 20th century writers. George Orwell. Orwell used Newspeak as the totalitarian language of his totalitarian government.
Huttese is one of the rather odd fictional languages. It is based on one singular languauge, rather than a group of languages. Huttese is spoken by the Hutts- a galactic species of crime lords, most famously including Jabba the Hutt. The vocabulary consists of canon words featured in the game setting, semi-canon words derived from canon words, and non-canon ones.
Dovahzul has its alphabet of 34 runes and their transliterations that draw inspiration from Cuneiform, the ancient Mesopotamian written language. Alienese is the written language featured on the animated show Futurama , and it was created as a clever sight gag for the fans. It began as a simple substitution alphabet, with 26 characters and the same base-ten number system as English.
However, deciphering the alphabet proved too simple for the fans, so the Futurama team devised the second, more complex encryption, this time using math.
Fans took a little longer to crack the Alienese II, but the brainiest viewers eventually figured it out, and everyone got to enjoy the extra humor. Like our list of fictional languages from pop culture? Share or pin it for later! You can also stay in the loop and follow us on Facebook and Pinterest. They are also, and perhaps more importantly, artistic expressions of their creators.
The Conlang Flag, representing the Tower of Babel against the rising sun Thanks to conlangers, fictional languages in pop culture have become a lot more sophisticated since Klingon was first uttered in Star Trek: The Motion Picture in Elvish from J.
Klingon proverb 4. The language of the Dothraki people was developed in full for the series by renowned linguist David J. If you want to speak it yourself, you can find a handy dictionary at Dothraki. Created by Cyan game designer Richard A. Watson, it often appeared throughout the game, creating intriguing mysteries for players to solve. Dothraki language creator David J. Peterson also pieced together the Trigedasleng language of the Grounder people on the CW series The Interestingly, on The , most Grounders speak Trigedasleng — however, the Grounder warriors are also able to speak traditional English so they can understand and take an upper hand on their English-speaking enemies.
Meanwhile, some of the humans who had escaped the apocalypse and have returned to Earth have also made attempts to learn Trigedasleng. Dovahzul is the language of the dragons in the video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim , as well as books based on the game. Within the game, hostile dragons have been known to taunt players in their language, and when spoken, rarely are more than three words uttered in a sentence.
Head to Thuum. Frommer took an entire six months to create the vocabulary we heard in the film, but since its release, he has expanded the language and grammatical rules so that fans can attempt to learn it.
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