{"id":254,"date":"2009-07-04T09:42:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T09:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2009-06-30T14:33:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T14:33:31","slug":"%e2%80%9ct1hingan-mah%e2%80%9d-or-the-power-of-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/04\/%e2%80%9ct1hingan-mah%e2%80%9d-or-the-power-of-television\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cT1hIngan maH!*\u201d (Or: The Power of Television)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/klingon.jpg\" alt=\"Klingon\" title=\"Klingon\" width=\"116\" height=\"111\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-255\" \/>I\u2019m no sci-fi geek, but I\u2019ll admit I did enjoy the recent <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0796366\/\">Star Trek <\/a><\/em>movie. Off the back of the movie comes something for uber sci-fi geeks and dedicated linguists: the Klingon dictionary for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultralingua.com\/en\/klingon.html\">iPhone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Originally invented for the <em>Star Trek <\/em>TV series, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Klingon_language\">Klingon language<\/a> is called<br \/>\n<strong>tlhIngan Hol<\/strong>, and even has its own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kli.org\/\">language institute<\/a>. It is one of the more successful invented languages, along with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Esperanto\">Esperanto <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elvish.org\/\">Elvish<\/a>. It appears to be much more complex than either of those languages, however:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Marc Okrand is a student of various Native American languages, which are notoriously difficult for speakers of Indo-European languages to learn, and in creating Klingon he borrowed rare and unfamiliar grammatical and syntactical rules, along with tongue-twisting sound combinations, from those and other little-known world languages. Klingon verbs have 29 different prefixes to indicate subject and object agreement, Klingon sentences have a highly unorthodox word order (object-verb-subject), and Klingon vocabulary can be almost endlessly agglutinated, meaning that long phrases can be stuck together into single words. (The supposed Klingon proverb &#8220;If it is in your way, knock it down,&#8221; is expressed in just two words: &#8220;Dubotchugh yIpummoH.&#8221;) Okrent says her reaction to Klingon, as an accredited linguist, was that &#8220;it was completely believable as a language, but somehow very, very odd.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of the article on invented languages <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/review\/2009\/06\/03\/invented_languages\/index.html\">here<\/a>. And if you\u2019ve never heard Klingon being spoken, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aOUp-4xNSDk\">this<\/a> young linguist. <\/p>\n<p>(*That\u2019s \u201cwe are Klingons!&#8221; for all you non-speakers.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m no sci-fi geek, but I\u2019ll admit I did enjoy the recent Star Trek movie. Off the back of the movie comes something for uber sci-fi geeks and dedicated linguists: the Klingon dictionary for the iPhone. Originally invented for the Star Trek TV series, the Klingon language is called tlhIngan Hol, and even has its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,109,16],"tags":[46,112,113,110,111],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-invented-languages","category-technology","tag-dictionary","tag-elvish","tag-esperanto","tag-klingon","tag-sci-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}