Klingon

Performer Jacqueline Salamack (L) jokes with an audience member after a performance of "A Klingon Christmas Carol" in Chicago, December 20, 2012.

Why yes, I do speak Klingon

Arts

Who creates fictional languages and who bothers to learn them?

Dutch-born author of Lingo Gaston Dorren. Dorren is pictured here in Turkey reading the German translation of book originally written in English: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka. Dorren's first language is Limburgish.

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Culture

Professor explains his creation of Dothraki language for HBO’s Game of Thrones TV series

Arts, Culture & Media

The Inventor of the Klingon Language

Arts, Culture & Media

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The World in Words
The World

Why Yes, I Do Speak Klingon

Arts, Culture & Media

Somehow the new Star Trek movie is managing to burn up the box office without a peep of Klingon — the made-up language of villainous space warriors. The linguist Arika Okrent is a certified Klingon speaker. In her new book In the Land of Invented Languages, she describes the lure of Klingon and why Earthlings have picked it up.