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The grammar of the Klingon language was created by Marc Okrand for the Star Trek franchise. He first described it in his book The Klingon Dictionary.It is a nominative–accusative, primarily suffixing agglutinative language, and has an object–verb–subject word order.
Klingon was subsequently developed by Okrand into a full-fledged language. Klingon is sometimes referred to as Klingonese (most notably in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Trouble with Tribbles", where it was actually pronounced by a Klingon character as "Klingonee" / ˈ k l ɪ ŋ ɡ ɒ n i /), but among the Klingon-speaking ...
A constructed writing system or a neography is a writing system specifically created by an individual or group, rather than having evolved as part of a language or culture like a natural script. Some are designed for use with constructed languages , although several of them are used in linguistic experimentation or for other more practical ends ...
Written Chinese is a writing system that uses Chinese characters and other symbols to represent the Chinese languages. Chinese characters do not directly represent pronunciation, unlike letters in an alphabet or syllabograms in a syllabary .
Chinese may be viewed either as a holistic unit with great internal topological variation, or as an entire language family comprising many groupings of varieties. Written Chinese makes use of Chinese characters , one of the four independent inventions of writing agreed by scholars, and the only one of these remaining in use.
The KLI pIqaD KLI pIqaD text sample. The Klingon Language Institute (KLI) version of the pIqaD script was created by an anonymous source at Paramount, who based the characters on letters seen in the show. This source sent the script in to the Klingon Language Institute, which uploaded it onto its website. [2]
The Klingon Language Institute (KLI) is an independent organization originally founded in Flourtown, Pennsylvania and now located in Kentucky. Its goal is to promote the Klingon language , a constructed language from the Star Trek fictional universe, as well as Klingon culture .
A constructed language may also be referred to as an artificial, planned or invented language, or (in some cases) a fictional language. Planned languages (or engineered languages/engelangs) are languages that have been purposefully designed; they are the result of deliberate, controlling intervention and are thus of a form of language planning.