Ford's 1984 Star Trek novel The Final Reflection, and appears in other Star Trek novels by Ford. The play A Klingon Christmas Carol is the first production that is primarily in Klingon (only the narrator speaks English).
The Klingon language (, , in ) is the constructed language spoken by the fictional Klingons in the Star Trek universe. Described in the 1985 book The Klingon Dictionary by Marc Okrand and deliberately designed to sound "alien", it has a number of typologically uncommon features.
This performance was reprised on February 27, 2011 featuring Stephen Fry as the Klingon Osric and was filmed by the BBC as part of a 5-part documentary on language entitled Fry's Planet Word. Google Search and Minecraft each have a Klingon language setting. The 2003–2010 version of the puzzle globe logo of Wikipedia, representing its multilingualism, contained a Klingon character.
A Klingon language Wikipedia was started in June 2004 at tlh.wikipedia.org.
It was permanently locked in August 2005 and moved to Wikia.
New vocabulary has been collected in a list maintained by the KLI until 2005 and has since then been followed up by Klingon expert Lieven Litaer. ===Internal history=== Within the fictional universe of Star Trek, Klingon is derived from the original language spoken by the messianic figure Kahless the Unforgettable, who united the Klingon home-world of under one empire more than 1500 years ago.
After Alec's fifth birthday, Speers reported that his son eventually stopped responding to him when spoken to in Klingon as he clearly did not enjoy it, so Speers switched to English. In 2007, a report surfaced that Multnomah County, Oregon, was hiring Klingon translators for its mental health program in case patients came into a psychiatric hospital speaking nothing but Klingon.
The Klingon Wiktionary was closed in 2008. The file management software XYplorer has been translated into Klingon by its developer. Microsoft's Bing Translator attempts to translate Klingon from and to other languages.
On September 25, 2010, the Washington Shakespeare Company (now known as WSC Avant Bard) performed selections from Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing in the Klingon language in Arlington, Virginia.
When updated in 2010, the Klingon character was removed from the logo, and substituted with one from the Ge'ez script.
This performance was reprised on February 27, 2011 featuring Stephen Fry as the Klingon Osric and was filmed by the BBC as part of a 5-part documentary on language entitled Fry's Planet Word. Google Search and Minecraft each have a Klingon language setting. The 2003–2010 version of the puzzle globe logo of Wikipedia, representing its multilingualism, contained a Klingon character.
For instance, while words for transporter ionizer unit () or bridge (of a ship) () have been known since close to the language's inception, the word for bridge in the sense of a crossing over water () was unknown until August 2012.
For example, "You must study it" is rendered instead as "They Must Study." In July 2015, when Conservative Welsh Assembly Member Darren Millar formally asked the Welsh Economy Minister Edwina Hart about the Welsh Government's policy funding research into sightings of UFOs at Cardiff Airport, a press officer in the Minister's office issued a written reply in Klingon: , which was translated as: "The minister will reply in due course.
However this is a non-devolved matter." With the digital only release of Discovery in 2017, streaming service Netflix announced it would provide Klingon subtitles for the entire first season, translated by Klingon language expert Lieven L.
They can be enabled like any other language provided by the streaming service, and are shown as the phonetic pronunciation rather than Klingon script. In 2017, a version of “The Gummy Bear Song” was uploaded to YouTube, fully translated to the Klingon language.
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