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The '''Atlantean language''' is a [[constructed language]] created by [[Marc Okrand]] for the [[Disney]] 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 languages|Indo-European]] word stock with its very own grammar, which is at times described as highly [[Agglutinative language|agglutinative]], inspired by [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]] and [[North American languages]]. | The '''Atlantean language''', (''Dig Adlantisag'') is a [[constructed language]] created by [[Marc Okrand]] for the [[Disney]] 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 languages|Indo-European]] word stock with its very own grammar, which is at times described as highly [[Agglutinative language|agglutinative]], inspired by [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]] and [[North American languages]]. | ||
==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||
The Atlantean language | The Atlantean language is a historically constructed, artistic language put together by Marc Okrand for Disney's 2001 film ''Atlantis: The Lost Empire'' and associated media.<ref name=prodnotes>"Production Notes." Atlantis-The Lost Empire. Ed. Tim Montgomery, 1996–2007. The Unofficial Disney Animation Archive. 13 January 2007. | ||
[http://animationarchive.net/Feature%20Films/Atlantis-The%20Lost%20Empire/Production%20Notes Animationarchive.net]{{Dead link|date=May 2012}}</ref> 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. | [http://animationarchive.net/Feature%20Films/Atlantis-The%20Lost%20Empire/Production%20Notes Animationarchive.net]{{Dead link|date=May 2012}}</ref> 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. | ||