Star Trek's Klingon language is a fully developed artificial language with grammar, syntax, and vocabulary, making it unique among fictional languages. Linguist Marc Okrand played a crucial role in ...

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"There are no sounds in Klingon that you can't find in other languages, but the collection of sounds is unique." While Okrand was essentially starting from scratch with Klingonese, he did have a few ...

It's not an exaggeration to say we've been waiting for Duolingo's course in Klingon for years. Now, it's finally making its debut. Star Trek fans (or really, anyone who's interested in taking a course ...

Duolingo is boldly going where few online language learning platforms have gone before: It now officially lets you learn Klingon. The company said it worked with broadcaster CBS and “some of the world ...

Who owns a made-up language? It sounds like a joke, but the question has become dead serious in a California district court. That’s because Paramount Pictures is suing the Star Trek fan film “Axanar” ...

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These are the words you hear at the very beginning of the very first “Star Trek” movie – the one from 1979 with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock that was awkwardly called “Star Trek: The Motion Picture.” ...

A group of linguists is boldly going where no one has gone before. In a legal brief peppered with idioms written in the original Klingon, the Language Creation Society — a California nonprofit devoted ...

Marc Okrand, 69, is often asked how to say “I love you” in Klingon, but the closest phrase is actually “I dis-hate you.” He lives in Adams Morgan. Klingon is this big deal now. It’s had a quarterly ...