Fans have developed the fictional 'Star Trek' language since the 1960s into a coherent syntax-based means of communication between Klingon-speakers.
A language school in Switzerland has begun teaching Klingon, a fictional language, sketched out in the 1960 for the bad guys in TV series Star Trek.
“I’m a big Star Trek fan. I like artificial languages. I’m working as a speech therapist. Therefore, I find it interesting to put myself in a student’s position who can’t understand a thing. But principally, it is fun,” said one eager student.
Have fun searching in different languages with #Google. Give pirate or #Klingon a try. https://t.co/3YjtCZNkdBpic.twitter.com/dHilQbFEys
— Tina Jacob (@JacobRealty) 30 octobre 2017
From the series’ inception fans have taken Klingon and developed and codified it to the point where it has a grammar and lexicography. It has a life of its own, even if it is not much practised anwhere.
“In the beginning, I found the grammar very exotic and I thought, wow, how is this possible? Later, I realized that other languages in China, the Caucasus or South America, all the indigenous languages have also an exotic grammar. Thanks to Klingon and some other languages I discovered linguistics and linguistic sciences,” said Klingon instructor Andre Mueller.
Marc Okrand, creator of #klingon language for
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The Star Trek reboot currently running on TV features more Klingon than any other iteration of the franchise, so if nothing else it may help viewers.
The work
— Peter J Hutchison (@TimminsKlingon) 25 octobre 2017CanadaAviatrix</a> has done with the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Klingon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Klingon</a> cast of <a href="https://twitter.com/startrekcbs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">
startrekcbs is nothing short of unprecedented. https://t.co/rhzhmhDoj2