"wIy cha'! HaSta! cha yIghuS! 'eH... baH!" 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 ...

The World's First Klingon-Speaking AI Launches on Star Trek's 59 th Birthday In 1984, linguist Marc Okrand was commissioned to develop a full Klingon language for the movie Star Trek III. He ...

Most languages develop through centuries of use among groups of people. But some have a different origin: They are invented, from scratch, from one individual’s mind. Familiar examples include the ...

From Valyrian to Klingon, a recent study has unveiled the top fictional languages that fans want to learn. Online entertainment experts from Jeffbet.com analyzed global Google search data in a recent ...

Alice is a Lord of the Rings enthusiast who grew up with Tolkien's tales. She loves all kinds of writing, from articles to stories to her debut novel, which she is seeking literary representation for.

The new Star Trek movie opens Friday, and it includes the usual suspects: Vulcans, Romulans and, of course, humans. But one race gets short shrift: the Klingons. The new movie is billed as a prequel — ...

A group of linguists are 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 ...

If someone invents a language and people start to use it, who owns it? Last year Paramount and CBS filed a lawsuit against a production company preparing to make a crowdfunded Star Trek fan film ...

“Sorry, I don’t understand.” Luckily there is a translator for that! To non-speakers, languages invented for television and books may sound like utter gibberish ...