15 Facts About Klingon language

Klingon is sometimes referred to as Klingonese, but among the Klingon-speaking community, this is often understood to refer to another Klingon language called Klingonaase that was introduced in John M Ford's 1984 Star Trek novel The Final Reflection, and appears in other Star Trek novels by Ford.

The Klingon language appeared intermittently in later films featuring the original cast; for example, in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, where translation difficulties served as a plot device.

Small number of non-Klingon language characters were later depicted in Star Trek as having learned to speak Klingon language, notably Jean-Luc Picard and Dax.

Klingon language therefore avoided patterns that are typologically common and deliberately chose features that occur relatively infrequently in human languages.

The Klingon language is displayed in both Latin and pIqaD fonts, making this the first Klingon language course written in pIqaD and approved by CBS and Marc Okrand.

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In March 2018, the popular language learning site Duolingo opened a beta course in Klingon.

Klingon language speakers are referred to in non-Star Trek TV series, including Frasier, The Big Bang Theory, and Lucifer, and was heavily featured in the "My Big Fat Geek Wedding" episode of The Simpsons.

When updated in 2010, the Klingon language character was removed from the logo, and substituted with one from the Ge'ez script.

When initially developed, Paramount Pictures wanted the Klingon language to be guttural and harsh and Okrand wanted it to be unusual, so he selected sounds that combined in ways not generally found in other languages.

Klingon language is normally written in a variant of the Latin alphabet.

In spite of this, the inventory has many gaps: Klingon language has no velar plosives, and only one sibilant fricative.

Verbs in Klingon language take a prefix indicating the number and person of the subject and object, whereas suffixes are taken from nine ordered classes and a special suffix class called rovers.

When written in the Latin alphabet, Klingon language is unusual in being case-sensitive, with some letters written in capitals and others in lowercase.

When Klingon language symbols are used in Star Trek productions, they are merely decorative graphic elements, designed to emulate real writing and create an appropriate atmosphere.

Design principle of the Klingon language is the great degree of lexical-cultural correlation in the vocabulary.