Atlantean language
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The Atlantean language is a constructed language created by Marc Okrand for Disney's film Atlantis: The Lost Empire. The language was intended as a possible "mother language" and was therefore invented to have Indo-European word stock with its own grammar.
Atlantean has an SOV word order. Adjectives follow their nouns while the adverbs follow their verbs. Atlantean has postpositions rather than prepositions. There are three recognized tenses: Present Perfect, Present, and Future. Imperatives are formed from the verb stem alone in the singular, and with the suffix -yoakh in the plural. Nouns are marked for plural with the suffix -en. There are also three cases for nouns: Nominative, Accusative (indicated by the suffix -tem), and Vocative (indicated by the suffix -toap, as in TAH-neb-toap, "Your Highness"); there is evidence of a fourth case, Genitive (indicated by the suffix -uhg, as in AHD-luhn-tih-suhg, "of Atlantis", although this may be interpreted rather as an adjective-forming suffix) and possibly even a fifth case, Instrumental (indicated by the suffix -esh, as in DEE-gesh from DEEG, "language"). Case suffixes never precede the -en plural suffix. There is evidence that a few nouns may be invariant, like TAH-mar, "law". Pronouns show case inflection for Nominative, Accusative (indicated by the suffix -it, as in TOO-git from TOOG, "he"), Genitive (indicated by the suffix -ihn, as in MOH-khihn from MOAKH, "you (singular)"), and Dative (indicated by the suffix -ihb, as in KAH-gihb from KAHG, "I").
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Sample quotation: TAHB-toap LOO-den NEH-bet kwahm GEH-soo BOH-geh-kem deg YAH-seh-ken GEH-soo-goan-tokh. "Father, these people may be able to help us." (The simple notation was designed to make it easy for actors to read their lines.)
[edit] External links
- Atlantean Conlang Metahistory
- Info on Atlantean at OmniGlot.com
- Official Atlantean Corpus
- Atlantean Lexicon
Written in boustrophedon style (in horizontal running alternately from right to left and left to right) Atlantean alphabet and numerals
