Check out Manvir Singh’s take on constructed languages (conlangs). This writing has opened my ears to what is going on with Game of Thrones, Halo, and of course Dune — what do we erase when we make up the language? “…the world we see in “Dune” was never meant to be fully sealed off from the one we know,” writes Singh. Read on to see what’s really going on the world of conglangs.
“Dune” and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages
Manvir Singh on the alien language spoken in Frank Herbert’s novels, which carries traces of Arabic, and why that influence has been scrubbed from the “Dune” films.
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