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===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||
Atlantean has its own script created expressly for the movie by [[John Emerson (Atlantis)|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]]. | Atlantean has its own script created expressly for the movie by [[w:John Emerson (Atlantis)|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 [[w:Roman script]]. | ||
[[File:Atlantean.png|thumb|The Atlantean script and numerals]] | [[w:File:Atlantean.png|thumb|The Atlantean script and numerals]] | ||
There is no punctuation or capitalization in the native Atlantean Writing System. Okrand based this on ancient writing systems. The Atlantean Script is normally in [[boustrophedon]], that is to say it is written left to right for the first line, right to left the second, and left to right again the third, to continue the pattern. This order was also suggested by Okrand, based on ancient writing systems, and it was accepted because, as he explained, "It's a back-and-forth movement, like water, so that worked."<ref name=prodnotes/><ref name=lingo>Wloszczyna, Susan. “New movie trek for wordsmith.” USA Today Online. 24 May 2001. 12 Jan. 2007. [https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/2001-05-24-atlantis-lingo.htm USA Today]</ref> | There is no punctuation or capitalization in the native Atlantean Writing System. Okrand based this on ancient writing systems. The Atlantean Script is normally in [[w:boustrophedon]], that is to say it is written left to right for the first line, right to left the second, and left to right again the third, to continue the pattern. This order was also suggested by Okrand, based on ancient writing systems, and it was accepted because, as he explained, "It's a back-and-forth movement, like water, so that worked."<ref name=prodnotes/><ref name=lingo>Wloszczyna, Susan. “New movie trek for wordsmith.” USA Today Online. 24 May 2001. 12 Jan. 2007. [https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/2001-05-24-atlantis-lingo.htm USA Today]</ref> | ||
The Atlantean script includes more characters than are actually employed in the language itself. These letters being c, f, j, q, v, x, z, ch, or th, they were created so that Atlantean might be used as a simple cipher code in the media and for promotional purposes. They are all also based on diverse ancient characters, just like the rest of the alphabet.<ref name=prodnotes/> | The Atlantean script includes more characters than are actually employed in the language itself. These letters being c, f, j, q, v, x, z, ch, or th, they were created so that Atlantean might be used as a simple cipher code in the media and for promotional purposes. They are all also based on diverse ancient characters, just like the rest of the alphabet.<ref name=prodnotes/> | ||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||