Re: OT: The Interpreter

Gregory Gadow wrote at 2005-04-23 01:13:20 (-0700)

[> Sally Caves wrote at 2005-04-23 01:11:40 (-0400)]
 >
 > > Second, for those who've seen it, what was the African language they had
 > > Nicole interpreting both ways in?
 >
 > Ku (Koo?), which the movie described as being a tribal language of
 > the Ku people but spoken throughout south-east Africa. I know next
 > to nothing of African languages, but given the realism that the
 > director tried to get (this was the very first movie actually
 > filmed inside the UN building; those weren't sets you saw), I
 > expect that Ku exists and is spoken in the areas mentioned, even if
 > Motombo is entirely made up. [snip]

On the contrary, it's a conlang (so this thread isn't so OT after all).

A page by the language's creator is to be found here:
http://www.cityboxoffice.co.uk/africanlanguagecentre/call/interpreter.htm

(via Mark Liberman at LanguageLog:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002085.html )