A blog on linguistics, Language Log, today published a guide to the Na’vi language as spoken on the new film “Avatar.” Linguist Paul Frommer of the University of Southern California spent years developing the Na’vi language, at the request of film director James Cameron. The language contains an actual sound system, syntax and morphology.
An audio interview with Frommer, in which we hear him speaking the Na’vi language, is on the NPR Web site. A text interview with Frommer is also published on the Unidentified Sound Object Web site.
Illustration from the Avatar movie photostream at Flickr.
