![]() One of the challenges we have is it takes people a long time to learn a language. My other academic research is on language revitalization, with indigenous or minority communities. ![]() The Na’vi language from that movie was very popular at the time and had made its way into many news stories about people learning the language - and doing it quickly. Around the time I started doing that, “Avatar” came out. I teach a course on linguistic anthropology, in which I give my students the task of creating new languages as they learn about the parts of languages. How did you come to study something as esoteric as invented languages? This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Schreyer spoke with Knowable Magazine about her experience in this unusual world, and the practical lessons that it provides for people trying to revitalize endangered natural languages. But Schreyer brings another skill to the table: She’s a language creator herself and has invented several languages for the movie industry: the Kryptonian language for “Man of Steel,” Eltarian for “Power Rangers,” Beama (Cro-Magnon) for “Alpha” and Atlantean for “Zack Snyder’s Justice League.” This live stream Zoom event is presented in relation to the special exhibit Jews in Space: Members of the Tribe in Orbit, on view Septemthrough April 11, 2021.CREDIT: JAMES PROVOST (CC BY-ND) Linguistic anthropologist Christine SchreyerĬhristine Schreyer, a linguistic anthropologist at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus in Kelowna, Canada, has studied invented languages and the people who speak them, a topic she writes about in the 2021 Annual Review of Anthropology. He is an associate producer of the documentary Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues (2017). He has degrees in linguistics from the Santa Cruz and Berkeley campuses of the University of California and has conducted linguistic research as a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. He did the translation for the Klingon opera ’u’ that premiered in The Netherlands in 2010 as well as the expanded version of the opera’s story in paq’batlh: The Klingon Epic. He is the author of The Klingon Dictionary, The Klingon Way: A Warrior’s Guide, and Klingon For the Galactic Traveler. In addition, he devised dialogue in Vulcan, Romulan, Kelpien, and other languages for several Star Trek films and TV series. The Klingon language he developed has continued to be used in the later Star Trek TV series. He also created the Atlantean language heard in the animated feature Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Marc Okrand devised the dialogue and coached the actors speaking the Klingon language heard in Star Trek III: The Search For Spock, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and Star Trek Into Darkness. If you need any additional help, or need your parcel to be sent to an alternative address please contact Laura Grant at Our Speaker: When registering please use your mailing address so we can guarantee your gift arrives prior to the event. *Please register for this event by Octoto be guaranteed to receive your free exclusive gift in time for the program. He will also explore the role of Klingon as a minority language in establishing cultural identity in both the universe of Star Trek and in our own “real” world. The Klingon language which began as a few lines of dialogue in the first Star Trek movie, has grown to be what Guinness World Records once dubbed the world’s “largest fictional language.” Join us as its creator, Marc Okrand shares how he created this unique language – and why – as well as how the needs and trends of filmmaking have influenced and altered Klingon’s grammar and vocabulary. To learn how to speak Klingon, check out the Klingon Language Institute here!.If you are interested in exploring more Klingon check out these links:
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