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/3YjtCZNkdB pic.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 StarTrek, speaking MFLAMD AnneArundelCC. pic.twitter.com/MgVos1kyOe— WCL AACPS (aacpswcl) 20 octobre 2017
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 CanadaAviatrix has done with the #Klingon cast of startrekcbs is nothing short of unprecedented. https://t.co/rhzhmhDoj2— Peter J Hutchison (@TimminsKlingon) 25 octobre 2017
