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9. Atlantean (Atlantis: The Lost Empire, 2001Disney’s sci-fi action-adventure mishmash Atlantis: The Lost Empire is one of their most criminally underrated movies. Admit it, more than a few of you probably forgot that it exists until we mentioned it just now. Which is a shame, because an insane amount of work went into creating the language of the lost undersea civilisation. Marc Okrand, the American linguist widely credited with the creation of Klingon, drew on languages from all across the world to create a “Tower of Babel” language that feels universal and incredibly old,
7. Parseltongue (The Harry Potter series)
Lord Voldemort might look like Michael Jackson with alopecia and he might get constantly thwarted by a teenager, but the ability to talk to snakes would be enough to tempt us into using dark magic. J.K. Rowling’s books have only ever described Parseltongue (as snake language is known to non-Muggles) as the sounds of hissing and spitting, but the films have tackled it in several different ways. In The Philosopher’s Stone a snake speaks to Harry in perfect English as he’s one of the rare humans who can understand the language. From The Chamber of Secrets onwards, the filmmakers created actual words in Parseltongue with the help of noted Cambridge phonetics professor Francis Nolan. Just be sure to carry a hanky if speaking it in public – you may end up dribbling on a lot of peoples
5. Na’vi (Avatar, 2009)
The first part of James Cameron’s 12-part magnum opus (as soon as he gets round to making them all), Avatar was a phenomenal exercise in world-building in cinema, and the language of the blue-skinned Na’vi was no exception. Paul Frommer, a linguist at the University of Southern California, was asked to create a language that sounded alien but was simple enough for the cast to learn in real life. Frommer drew inspiration from Polynesian, removing plosives (like “b” or “d”) common in Western languages. God knows who decided to write the subtitles in Papyrus font, though. Frommer also created Barsoomian, the language of Mars in John Carter: another super-expensive film half of you have probably completely forgotten about.
3. Elvish (The Lord of the Rings)
Even before Peter Jackson brought J.R.R. Tolkein’s epic trilogy of books to the big screen (and arguably changed modern cinema as we know it in the process by bringing nerd culture to the mainstream), the Elvish languages were firmly established. Tolkein was a philologist by profession, and it was his obsession with Finnish epic poetry that inspired him to create what would become the Elvish of Middle-earth. As lovely as the language looks on paper, there’s nothing quite like seeing top-tier actors like Lee Pace, Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving chewing their way through the honeyed syllables.
2. Klingon (The Star Trek films)
We couldn’t write a list of fictional languages without talking about Klingon. Despite having a vocabulary of only 3,000 words, it’s probably one of the most well-known alien languages in all of science fiction. Actor James Doohan, who played Scotty, came up with a basic vocabulary of harsh, guttural words for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (before then Klingons always spoke English in the TV show), which our old friend Marc Orkrand developed into a working language. It’s reckoned there are only about 30 ‘fluent’ Klingon speakers in the world, and it’s a language filled with difficulties – while it has a word for the ‘bridge’ of a ship, nobody thought to come up with a word for the thing you use to cross a river until as late as 2012.
1. Nadsat (A Clockwork Orange, 1971)
What’s it going to be then, eh? The top of our list? Well you know, since you’ve already read the title. Anthony Burgess drew on Russian, German and Cockney rhyming slang to create the sinister lingo of Alex DeLarge and his merry band of droogs, and Stanley Kubrick did a horrorshow job of translating it from the written to the spoken word. In Malcolm McDowell’s dulcet tones there’s something almost lyrical about nadsat; it’s the kind of language that gets you good and drunk at the Korova milkbar before taking you outside and spilling your red, red krovvy all over the pavement
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