Atlantean language
| Atlantean | |
|---|---|
| Dig Adlantisag | |
| Created by | Marc Okrand |
| Date | 1996–2001 |
| Setting and usage | 2001 film Atlantis: The Lost Empire and related media |
| Users | None |
| Purpose | |
| Boustrophedon | |
| Sources |
constructed languages A posteriori languages |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
The Atlantean language is a constructed language created by Marc Okrand for Disney's film Atlantis: The Lost Empire. The language was intended by the script-writers to be a possible "mother language", and Okrand crafted it to include a vast Indo-European word stock with its very own grammar, which is at times described as highly agglutinative, inspired by Sumerian and North American languages.
The Atlantean language (Dig Adlantisag) is a historically constructed, artistic language put together by Marc Okrand for Disney’s 2001 film Atlantis: The Lost Empire and associated media, The Atlantean language is therefore based both on historic reconstructions as well as on the elaborate fantasy/science fiction of the Atlantis: The Lost Empire mythos. The fictional principles upon which the Atlantean language was created are: Atlantean is the “Tower of Babel language”, the “root dialect” from which all languages descended, it has existed without change since sometime before 100,000 B.C., within the First or Second Age of Atlantis until the present.
To accomplish this, Dr. Okrand looked for common characteristics from various world languages and was also heavily inspired by the Proto-Indo-European language. His main source of words (roots and stems) for the language is Proto-Indo-European, but Okrand combines this also with inspiration from Biblical Hebrew, apart from Indo-European languages such as Latin and Greek languages, along with a variety of other ancient languages or ancient language reconstructions.
Atlantean has its own script created expressly for the movie by John Emerson with the help of Marc Okrand, and inspired by ancient alphabetical scripts, most notably Semitic. There are, however, different kinds of transliteration into the Roman script.
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