First of all, huge respect to those linguists who agreed to cooperate with film studios and developed Klingon, Huttese, Dothraki, Na’vi and others… What an amazing creative challenge for a language expert! But (correct me if I’m wrong) all fictional languages are to some extent based on existing or dead human languages. The only example of a completely alien code is those circular symbols in the Arrival movie (very interesting concept). I personally find it more “authentic”, especially in scifi, when an alien language has no patterns borrowed from human codes. What’s your thought on consciously designed film/book languages? Would you work on one? Which existing/dead human language would you use as a base or would you rather come up with completely alien patterns?
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