Language is one of the greatest art forms on Earth. There are thousands of spoken, written, and signed languages around the world with subcategories including regional and ethnic dialects and ...

“Sorry, I don’t understand.” Luckily there is a translator for that! To non-speakers, languages invented for television and books may sound like utter gibberish ...

For big fans of James Cameron’s Avatar, the 13-year wait between the original and this year’s sequel probably felt near interminable. But die-hard fans might have counted with a bit more agony and say ...

For most people, the constructed languages spoken in fictional universes sort of flit by, an element that adds to the overall immersion of the experience, but that’s all. A lot of work goes into those ...

When words fail them, creative writers imagine entirely new ones. Author Patti Callahan Henry examines fictional language, from the words of Tolkien to her own. Our editors and experts handpick every ...

Hi, I'm Erik Singer. [Presenter] Erik is a dialect coach and guy who really loves linguistics. Today we're gonna talk about constructed languages. Conlangs are languages that have been made up by a ...

For all of Game of Thrones’ fantasy elements, the fictional languages its characters speak are firmly grounded in reality. Now the person who helped create them for television are offering a course on ...

In film and television, language is almost always an important component for the audience. However, the sci-fi and fantasy genres have taken that basic communication several steps further by inventing ...

Linguistics is one of the degrees most often dragged through the mud for being "useless," but The Lord of the Rings, one of the highest-grossing franchises of all time, might not have been possible, ...

The university announced in a release last week that David J. Peterson, a Berkeley alum, will teach the summer offering, called “The Linguistics of Game of Thrones and the Art of Language Invention.” ...

The 2018 movie Alpha is an interesting exploration of life in the last ice age and the lasting bond between humans and their canine companions. The adventure movie follows a young man named Keda who ...