Star Trek Movie Mistakes. Starbase 22 - Star Trek Fan Site. Star Trek, J.J. Abrams, Spock, Kirk, Uhura. Star Trek Fan Sites. Klingon alphabet, pronunciation and language. Klingon is the language spoken by Klingons, alien characters in the Star Trek films and TV series. In the 1984 film, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, the director, Leonard Nimoy, and the writer-producer, Harve Bennett, wanted the Klingons to speak a real-sounding language rather than gibberish, so they commissioned the linguist Marc Okrand to create Klingon. Okrand based the language partly on Klingon phrases made up by James Doohan (Scotty) for the 1979 film Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and developed a grammar and more extensive vocabulary. Aspects of Klingon language and culture were further developed for the 1987 series, Star Trek: The Next Generation and later series.
To make Klingon sound alien consonants and combinations of consonants, particularly retroflex, velar and uvular ones, uncommon in natural languages are used, such as /q͡χ/. There are a small number of people able to converse in Klingon, and maybe several hundred others who have some knowledge of the language. Links. Star Trek and Philosophy. Star Trek and Philosophy The Wrath of Kant Edited by Jason T. Eberl and Kevin S. Decker Vol. 35 in the Popular Culture and Philosophy® series From cult to mainstream, the Star Trek epic has gone where no work of dramatic art has gone before, to become the most popular imaginary world yet conceived.
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