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The Art of Hollywood’s Made-Up Languages, from Dothraki to Klingon [video]

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It's a shame they didn't include Belter from The Expanse(from the little bit I watched). Ars[1] did a great interview with the creator a while back(minor spoilers in the episode summary before the podcast).

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/03/decrypted-the-expanse...

I loved the books, like the show, but wish it had a bigger budget . . .

I read the books after someone recommended it to me, then tried to watch the show but bounced off it in the first few minutes. Budget was obviously a fraction of what it needs to be but it was miller's casting that caused me to turn it off.

Didn't Anthony Burgess make up the rudimentary language used in The Quest for Fire?

He certainly did. And wrote an article about the process.

Also Nadsat in A Clockwork Orange was his handiwork, influenced by Russian slang if I remember correctly. He wrote about that at one point I think (was a High School book report years ago).

On a side note, if some one is interested in making a new language, how can he/she go about introducing it to Hollywood and sell it?

There's actually a book on this topic from the guy who did Dothraki for the GoT show. Haven't read it yet though I did buy it at some point. (no affiliate link)

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Language-Invention-Horse-Lords-Wo...

In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent is great.

Upvoted; I love this book. Amazon recommended it to me out of the blue when I started studying Esperanto again and I went in totally blind; enjoyed it from start to finish.

Also, if you're interested in languages invented for TV and movies, read David Peterson's "The Art of Invented Languages", in which he describes how he created Dothraki and a whole bunch of other languages, including writing systems. As a linguist who would love to get into that kind of thing (and who has studied some very obscure languages which would make good influences), I totally enjoyed this. A little more technical than Arika Okrent's book, but still very accessible.

I this article only 3 paragraphs long? I was expecting more. Am I missing something?

It's mainly a video, the text is just a caption.

Ok, thank you.

The video is blocked in my job. I just noticed the large white square in the article.

Is youtube accessible? The video is on Wired's Youtube channel too

Thanks, we've updated the submission title to indicate that.

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