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"wIy cha'! HaSta! cha yIghuS! 'eH... baH!" These are the words you hear at the very beginning of the very first "Star Trek" movie -- the one from 1979 with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock that was ...

Most languages develop through centuries of use among groups of people. But some have a different origin: They are invented, from scratch, from one individual’s mind. Familiar examples include the ...

From Valyrian to Klingon, a recent study has unveiled the top fictional languages that fans want to learn. Online entertainment experts from Jeffbet.com analyzed global Google search data in a recent ...

Teachers at a Brooklyn school are finding inspiration from an unlikely source: Star Trek. They're boldly going where no educators have gone before (probably), learning "Klingon" as a way to connect to ...

The World's First Klingon-Speaking AI Launches on Star Trek's 59 th Birthday In 1984, linguist Marc Okrand was commissioned to develop a full Klingon language for the movie Star Trek III. He ...

“Sorry, I don’t understand.” Luckily there is a translator for that! To non-speakers, languages invented for television and books may sound like utter gibberish ...

Last night, linguists Paul Frommer, creator of the Na'vi language for James Cameron's "Avatar," and Marc Okrand, creator of ...

It takes a lot of work to create a believable science fiction or fantasy universe, and that often includes developing ...