Obsessive site Of The Day: The Klingon Language

Martin Anderson

Whatever small aspect of movies or life you can think of, there's a whole website somewhere obsessing about it....

Published on Feb 17, 2009

Did you know that James Doohan (the original Scotty in Star Trek) pretty much invented the Klingon language? When Robert Wise was looking for some sounds to have the Federation's nemesis speak out for the first time in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), it was Doohan who came up with guttural utterances used by the Klingon captain played by Mark Lenard. Thereafter the Klingon language was developed by linguist Marc Okrand for Paramount pictures' continuing string of Star Trek hits in the 1980s. Interest in the language has even spawned a Klingon Language Institute. The KLI website reserves some content for its members, but you can still read a multitude of back issues of Klingon newsletters. If you can read Klingon that is. And, of course, find out more about the most successful 'invented' language of all time...

http://www.kli.org