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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 (TV)|Star Trek Voyager]]'' and ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine (TV)|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 [[http://www.kli.org/wiki/index.php?Klingon<!-- 20Bible20Translation%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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== Real Life ==
* The first known artificial language was ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volap<!-- C3BCk%C3%BCk Volapük]]'', which meant "World speak." The language's author was attempting to build a universal language that everybody worldwide could use to communicate. It fell flat for two reasons: (1) The pronunciation was way counterintuitive, always placing the accent on the last syllable of every word and using oddball sounds like ü ; and (2) The creator was a minister who didn't want any of the "naughty words" in his language, so you couldn't cuss in it. -->
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Unwin_(comedian) Stanley Unwin] built a career out of his invented language "Unwinese" also known as "Basic Engly Twentyfido". Deep Joy !
* [[Esperanto, the Universal Language]] counts so much so.
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