This video discusses constructed languages (conlangs) and highlights six prominent ones, including:
1. **Parcel Tongue (Harry Potter):** Inspired by Niger-Congo languages, it incorporates hissing sounds reminiscent of snakes.
2. **Klingon (Star Trek):** Created by Mark Okrand, it has a unique word order and harsh, guttural sounds.
3. **High Valyrian and Dothraki (Game of Thrones):** Both languages have influences from real-world languages, such as Arabic and Turkish, and are developed with linguistic evolution in mind.
4. **Na'vi (Avatar):** Draws inspiration from Maori and Polynesian languages, featuring glottal stops and ejective sounds.
5. **Sindarin (Lord of the Rings):** Created by J.R.R. Tolkien, it combines influences from Finnish, Welsh, and other languages.
6. **Ewokese (Return of the Jedi):** Inspired by a Mongolic language, it's a collection of words and phrases with no real grammar.
The video also touches on fictional languages like Iwaki, Divine language (Fifth Element), Droid language (Star Wars), and Morkspeak (Mork and Mindy), showcasing their diverse linguistic features.
1. The speaker is Eric, a dialect coach who loves linguistics and constructed languages, often referred to as conlangs.
2. Conlangs are languages that have been made up by a person rather than being a naturally occurring language that's evolved over time.
3. Examples of conlangs include Parcel Tongue from Harry Potter, Klingon from Star Trek, Dothraki from Game of Thrones, and Cindarin from The Lord of the Rings.
4. Klingon was created by Mark Auckland to sound not like any actual human language. It has a unique word order and a set of sounds that exist in human languages.
5. High Valyrian, a language from Game of Thrones, is spoken by characters from different places and they speak different dialects.
6. Dothraki, another language from Game of Thrones, has a vocabulary of about 3,000 words.
7. There is a Klingon translation of Hamlet.
8. The language from the movie Avatar, called Avi, was inspired by Maori and some Polynesian languages, especially when it comes to syllable structure.
9. The Elvish language from Lord of the Rings, also known as Cinderen, was created by J.R.R. Tolkien. It combines influences from some of the languages that Tolkien knew and loved, like Finnish.
10. The language Iwakis from Return of the Jedi was created by the sound designer for the film, who took inspiration from a Mongolic language called a minority language.
11. The language from the movie Fifth Element, called Divine, has a similar syllable structure to Japanese.
12. The language from Mork and Mindy, called Morkspeak, is characterized by the way the character Mork raises and wiggles a vowel before the end of a word.
13. The language from Guardians of the Galaxy, called Groot, is limited to the phrase "I am Groot".
14. The language from the toy Furby is limited to a few words.
15. The language from the movie Arrival, called Heptapod, has a completely different conception of time compared to human beings.