The Creation of the Klingon Language | Unsung Science with David Pogue

Star Trek: The Pod Directive

Star Trek

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4.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Where do fictional languages come from? How are they devised? Hear from the creator of the Klingon language, Marc Okrand, on his process of designing the famous conlang (constructed language) and his first few Star Trek gigs. You'd be surprised by the amount of vocabulary, syntax, and grammar that go into inventing the conlang. Host David Pogue also interviews language creator David Peterson on his conlangs, including Dothraki and High Valyrian from Game of Thrones, and Angela Carpenter, a linguistics professor at Wellesley College on the history of constructed languages. We'll be back with a new episode of the Pod Directive soon!

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