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: Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
2009-12-22 21:49:00

Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
2009-12-22 21:49:00

Mood: busy

Some Highlights of Na'vi

I was fascinated by this article about Na'vi, the alien language composed for the movie "Avatar." It is a subtle, flexible, and intricate tongue. I am strongly reminded of some Native American languages, which can stack and weave affixes in ways that seem odd to English speakers. I can't quite get my mind around Na'vi yet ... I need to hear it in my ears ... but there's something familiar about it.

Tags: entertainment, linguistics

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tinhuviel

December 23 2009, 16:21:27 UTC 11 years ago

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"Some of these names were really made up, to please himself with their sound (or so he thought); but others seemed 'real,' as if they had not been spoken first by him. So it was with 'Numenor.'" ~JRR Tolkien from The Lost Road

We are all connected by our collective unconscious, but you know that. I think that it comes out more in languange and music than in anything else. I could be wrong about that, but that's just my theory. :) Happy Holidays to you. Hope your Yule was blessed.

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ysabetwordsmith

December 23 2009, 16:42:29 UTC 11 years ago

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>>We are all connected by our collective unconscious, but you know that. I think that it comes out more in languange and music than in anything else.<<

Sooth. I often 'hear' a character's name, rather than looking it up. When working on a fantasy language, the same thing happens -- once its phoneme and morphology parameters are in my head, some words just start popping up.

I've been a Tolkien fan -- languages and all -- since I was four and my mother read me The Hobbit. The old words sing in my ears.