Re: Ugly Klingon was Re: PHONO: lateral plosive

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From: Joe
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|From: "Karapcik, Mike"
| >     (I know he also did Atlantean from Disney's movie. Frankly, the
|language aspect was the one thing about that movie that made me cringe.
|Atlanteans speak PIE (ok...), so by extension they are fluent in *all*
|daughter languages (not ok...). The "Teach Yourself Atlantean" on the DVD
|was sooo veeery laaame.)

> They really speak PIE?  Somewhat cringeworthy, but it'd be interesting to
> see how he rendered it...

 It was never called PIE, per se. It was referred to as the ancestor of Latin
and Greek (don't remember if Sanskrit was mentioned), which would be pretty
close to PIE, if not PIE itself.
 In the movie, when Whatshisname was talking to Kita in Atlantean, he switched
to Latin and I think Greek. She understood them. Then he spoke French (what
sounded like Modern French to my Anglophone ears), and she responded in French.
He then tried English, and the rest was in English. However, when the
expedition and Atlanteans first socialized, there were conversations in other
languages, including Russian and German.
 So... If Atlantean isn't PIE, it would be one of the very early offshoots. The
ancestor of Romance, Hellenic, Slavic, and Germanic would probably trace back
to migrations out of the Persian area.

        Mike K

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