Who Created Star Trek's Klingon Language?
The Big Picture Over the course of its 57-year history, Star Trek, throughout its multiple iterations, has seen a wide variety of alien races: Vulcans, Ferengi, Cardassians, the Borg, and even Tribbles. Though just as guilty as any other sci-fi franchise of having aliens that speak fluent English, efforts have been made to give the races in Star Trek a language of their own, be it a word or two, or full conversations.
The Klingon language is one of many fictional languages, which are a subset of Constructed Language specifically created for a fictional setting. J.R.R. Tolkien is widely acknowledged as being the first person to invent whole, complex, languages for use in fictional works. In Tolkien's case, the Elven languages Quenya and Sindarin, among others, are used in his Lord of the Rings trilogy.
The man who took the language much, much farther was a linguist who had worked on the first television real-time closed captioning systems: Marc Okrand. A friend working on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan brought Okrand to write dialogue in Vulcan for a scene between Leonard Nimoy and Kirstie Alley. The scene had been filmed in English, so Okrand was brought in to create dialogue that could be dubbed over the existing lines while matching the actors' mouth movements .
Is Klingon a Real Language Now? While it was true there were no constraints akin to matching mouth movements, there were still a few things that Okrand had to take into account. First, he had to work from the Klingon created by Doohan for the first movie. Secondly, the language should match the toughness, crudeness, and violence associated with any warrior race. Finally? Make it a fully realized language. No problem.
Since then, Klingon has taken on a life of its own. From the skeleton of the Klingon language, Okrand told Mashable that he created to cover the Klingon words needed for the film, the language has grown to nearly 3,000 Klingon words.
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