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Title: Universal Translator, The: Everything You Need to Know About 139 Languages that Don’t Really Exist
Author: WAHLGREN YENS
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/04/2021
Imprint: HISTORY PRESS LTD
Price: $40.00
Publishing status: Active
A linguistic and creative masterpiece on entertainment’s constructed languages to instruct and
delight fans and creators alike.
This is a book about languages that aren’t real: those from countries that don’t exist, alien
languages, languages of mythological creatures and languages spoken in an imagined future or
parallel universe. But they are also languages that are, to the highest degree, living on Earth
thanks to their enthusiastic fans. Klingon, Valyrian, Syldavian, Na’vi, Lilliputian, Orcish these are
a few of the 139 fictional languages that xenosociolinguist Yens Wahlgren delights in and
unravels. This is not a grammar book or a lexicon but rather an exploration through time and
space, through worlds and universes arisen from the imagination, through pop culture and
linguistic nerdship.
Follow Wahlgren on a journey through the universes of Tolkien, Star Trek, Game of Thrones,
Doctor Who and Marvel, from the complex and beautiful Elvish to the seemingly nonsensical yet
surprisingly considered hoots of Pingu, and learn the creative and sociological value of
constructed languages across the world (and beyond).
15 b/w illustrations
ISBN: 9780750993203
Dimension: 216mm X 138mm