In film and television, language is almost always an important component for the audience. However, the sci-fi and fantasy genres have taken that basic communication several steps further by inventing ...

Hildegard von Bingen was something of a medieval genius. She founded and was Abbess of a convent at Rubensberg in Germany, she wrote ethereally beautiful music, she was an amazing artist (one of the ...

Languages like English, French, Japanese, and Swahili are natural languages; they have evolved over time, within a community of speakers, with a shared culture, to facilitate communication. At an ...

Last night, linguists Paul Frommer, creator of the Na'vi language for James Cameron's "Avatar," and Marc Okrand, creator of the Klingon language for "Star Trek," spoke to a room of linguistics ...

If you ever want to find a bathroom on Vulcan or ask for dressage lessons in Essos, you’ll need to learn a constructed language first. "Conlangs", as they're known, are common in genre movies and ...

A less-discussed aspect of Tolkien is the way he used constructed language in his writing. Tolkien is widely regarded as the most influential author on the fantasy genre...period. A less-discussed ...

In a linguistic arena once dominated by self-serious constructed languages, goofiness has gained a foothold. By Sam Corbin Sam Corbin has now seen enough “Minions” memes to last her a lifetime. The ...