conlangs1-5 Exercise 1: Three Screen Languages =============================================== Row Klingon Dothraki Na'vi ----------------------- ------------------ ------------------- ------------------ Franchise Star Trek Game of Thrones Avatar Designer Marc Okrand David J. Peterson Paul Frommer The people A proud warrior A nomadic horse A forest-dwelling culture people clan on a moon Thing to get right Sound and a Sound and Growth: the director consistent grammar consistency gave a short word list for many writers to build on Rows that need a lookup: - Exact first appearance of Klingon in the films (look it up). - How large each vocabulary is today (look it up). - Phonetic features of each (the course only describes Klingon). The point: each language was built to a brief with a different emphasis.