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== Films -- Live Action ==
* ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' has [https://web.archive.org/web/20131209172856/http://www.thedivinelanguage.com/ the divine language]
* ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' uses the [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Mando a Mandalorian language], developed with a functional grammar, syntax and several thousands of words.
** The alien languages used in the films were mostly adapted from Earth languages. Huttese is based on Quechua, Rodian borrows from Italian, and Sullustan (the language of Lando's copilot) was actually Haya, a language of Kenya.
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** All the Klingon spoken in every Star Trek film - from ''Star Trek: The Motion Picture'' through to the 2009 reboot - is "tlhIngan Hol", and often Okrand coached the actors himself. Unfortunately most writers in the TV series (''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'') just looked up the words in the Klingon dictionary rather than using them properly, presumably due to time/money constraints.
** Linguist d'Armond Speers tried [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.08/mustread_pr.html raising his child to speak Klingon as a bilingual speaker] but abandoned the effort after several years, finding that the vocabulary was not extensive enough and the child abandoned speaking the language when he found only his father spoke it.
** An attempt was made to [https://web.archive.org/web/20060928222937/http://www.kli.org/wiki/index.php?Klingon%20Bible%20Translation%20Project translate the Bible into Klingon], but it fell apart because the translators couldn't agree on whether to translate the peace-and-love passages of the New Testament literally, or to instead tailor them for Klingon culture.
* In ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'', the Na'vi speak a [http://www.learnnavi.org/ constructed language] developed for the film by linguist Paul Frommer.
* A Martian language is being developed for Disney's forthcoming [[John Carter of Mars]] film, also by Dr. Frommer.
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