Ever wonder who gets to invent Klingon? Or N’avi? It’s people like Christine Schreyer, a linguistic anthropologist at the University of British Columbia. Schreyer explains to host Marco Werman how she created a language from scratch for the movie “Alpha,” which takes place during the Ice Age.
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