Marc Okrand

Marc Okrand ( born July 3, 1948 in Los Angeles, California ) is an American linguist and best known as the inventor of the Klingon language.

Okrand his doctorate in 1977 at the University of California, Berkeley on the indian language Mutsun the Ohlone. Since 1978 until his retirement in 2013 he worked for the National Captioning Institute, Inc., a company that created the subtitles for the deaf.

In the early 1980s, he was hired by Paramount Pictures first for the creation of a volcanic dialogue and shortly thereafter for the development of the Klingon language and coaching of actors in various Star Trek films, so that the self-contained strangeness and peculiarity of the population the " Klingons " can be aesthetically convincing implemented in screenwriting and film. Okrand defined the " canon " of the language. He became famous through his Klingon dictionary and other related products.

He is in close contact with the Klingon Language Institute, and also fun to create new Klingon vocabulary for this regularly.

Originally Okrand worked on languages ​​of American Indians, where he also found his job for Klingon. The unusual sound tlh ( IPA: [ t͡ɬ ] ) in Klingon, for example, part of the phonetic inventory of Nahuatl. The name of the Klingons ( tlhIngan ) usually begins with that sound.

For the Disney movie Atlantis - The Lost Empire, he developed the language of Atlantis.

Works

  • The Klingon Dictionary. Pocket Books, 1992, ISBN 0-671-74559- X
  • The Klingon Way. Pocket Books, 1996, ISBN 0-671-53755-5
  • Klingon for the galactic traveler. Pocket Books, 1997, ISBN 0-671-00995-8
  • Paq'batlh: The Klingon Epic ( with Floris Schönfeld ), uitgeverij, 2011, ISBN 978-90-817091-2-5

Audio language course

  • Conversational Klingon ( with Barry Levine ), Simon & Schuster, 1992, ISBN 978-0671797393
  • Power Klingon ( with Barry Levine ), Simon & Schuster, 1993, ISBN 978-0671879754

Movies

Marc Okrand has translated dialogues for the following films and taught the actors. In the first Star Trek Klingon by 1979 there was already spoken, but these were the words that the actor James Doohan had invented.

Trivia

  • An element used in Star Trek VI dictionary entitled " Okrand 's Unabridged Dictionary Klingon ", in reference to Marc Okrand.
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