Talk:Atlantean language/@comment-24561903-20150212183054/@comment-26298683-20150410175819

Why, thank-you very much! See, this is what I need, appreciation and encourgement, instead of what I usually get.

I wrote almost all of the above article, which is copied from Wikipedia, back in 2006. I also run the long-inactive yahoo group "Atlantean Language Group" and made this 2010 website:

http://www.freewebs.com/keran_shadlag/completecorpus.htm

I also have a Facebook Group now:

Atlantis the Lost Empire Atlantean Language by Dr. Marc Okrand

https://www.facebook.com/groups/377768309042171/

I've came on the scene late in the game, in 2006, and built on the work of Paul Sherrill and Rebmakash, among others, documented in my works (or to be publicized better). I think it's fair to say I've done most of the documentation and decipherment work for Atlantean, but I have to give huge credit to my predecessors and those who have joined me along the way, either by posting things online or by contacting me, all of whom I've made record of and will give full credit to. Most recently, someone figured out the adjectives inflect for Singular and Plural.

I went on to document and decipher a ton of other famous invented languages from books, movies, and television, like Pakuni, which I don't care to list here. Mostly old or less popular ones. I also study the famous and popular ones, which have little or no need of decipherment. I recently made an interlinear version of the Na'vi movie corpus, no easy task.

http://anylanguageatall.hubpages.com/hub/Navi-Movie-Corpus-Interlinear-Translation

I also have an online encyclopedia on all languages and writing systems, including these famous invented languages:

http://anylanguageatall.hubpages.com/hub/Any-Language-at-All

So, not to go on and on, I saw the movie when I was like 13, and I didn't know it had a language because they didn't publicize that as well as the alphabet. So I learned the alphabet by journaling in it, and started studyin all writing systems using AncientScripts.Com and Omniglot.Com. Then by 2006, sophomore year in college, I took an introductory class in Linguistics with Dr. Victoria Bergvall of Michigan Technological University ( PhD  Linguistics, Harvard), and I started studying all language by deciphering Atlantean. Actually, I remember the core concepts were established by online personages like Paul Sherrill. But I fleshed it out and puzzled over the exact grammatical identifications of the phenomena present. Most people and most scholars don't appreciate this, believe it or not. It's a worthwhile thing for at least one person to do, preferably like 20 (so far there's only been 2, me and I forget her name now, oh, Cindy Morris (?) (then-undergrad at University of Texas).  I went on to get a BA in Linguistics from Michigan State and make a ton of money and live like a king teaching English in China.  I'm going to make a unique website presenting photographs and interlinear translations of all the Old Khmer / Sanskrit inscriptions within the vicinity of Angkor Wat just north of Siem Reap, Cambodia.  Eventually.  I'm very busy.

So, even though I'm one person, I want to thank "Disney", Dr. Marc Okrand, and the specific creative team involved in incorporating a real invented language into their 2001 movie "Atlantis: The Lost Empire". It was a major inspiration toward a lifetime (well, 10 years) of unique scholarship and work toward making languages easier to learn (especially ones with logographic scripts like Chinese, those are my specialty, the hardest).

Atlantean is a lot like German or Latin, but more streamlined and simple. It's still going to be hard, even for people who even know English and Spanish. It runs on the grammatical concepts that power German and Latin, the Nominative Accusative Dative Genitive Instrumental case system, and the Subject-inflected verbs. Pakuni was more about learning Parts of Speech and basics of word order. Atlantean really is a gateway to German, Russian, Latin, or Greek. And Latin is very helpful for the Romance languages, as well as technical jargon for careers. Greek vocabulary is very important for a career in medicine. ( The part about it being Sumerian overlaid with Choctaw was poetic license, it's actually more like Latin lightly flavored with some other stuff. )  And the writing system is mostly Phoenician mixed half and half with Futhark Runes. The numbers are mostly Roman Numerals, but using the Mayan signs. There's very little Chinese or Japanese in the whole thing, really.