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	Marc Okrand at AllExperts
		Marc Okrand is most famous as the author of the dictionary of The Klingon Dictionary and all its addenda.
		Okrand taught undergraduate linguistics courses at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 1975 to 1978.
		Okrand currently serves as the Director for Live Captioning at the National Captioning Institute.
	en.allexperts.com /e/m/ma/marc_okrand.htm (283 words)

	Marc Okrand - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
		Okrand's basis for the Klingon language came from the few samples spoken in Star Trek: The Motion Picture which were made up by James Doohan.
		Marc Okrand is most famous as the author of The Klingon Dictionary and all its addenda.
		Okrand previously worked with Native American languages, from which he borrowed the unusual Klingon tlh [IPA: /t͡ɬ/] sound (common in North and Central American indigenous languages, in which it is usually transcribed as tl; this is the sound at the end of Nahuatl as the Aztecs pronounced it themselves).
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Marc_Okrand (316 words)

	Marc Okrand
		Marc Okrand is the inventor of the Klingon language.
		He was hired by Paramount Pictures to invent the language and coach the actors on Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
		Okrand previously worked with Native American languages, from which he borrowed the unusual Klingon tlh sound (common in North and Central American indigenous languages, in which it is usually transcribed as tl).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Marc_Okrand.html (95 words)

	National Captioning Institute
		She gave Marc a call, invited him to interview for the supervisor position, and soon hired him.
		In 1982, Marc was on location in California for the first highly publicized live event that NCI ever captioned: the Academy Awards.
		It’s nice to be reminded of that once in a while.” Marc continues to play an integral role at NCI of finding new and improved ways to efficiently provide captioning services to reach more people who are unable to hear the spoken word.
	www.ncicap.org /OkrandPR.asp (921 words)

	Altantean alphabet
		The Atlantean language was created for the film Atlantis: The Lost Empire by Marc Okrand, who also created the Klingon and Vulcan languages for the Star Trek films and television shows.
		Okrand worked with John Emerson, a designer at Disney, to produce an alphabet for the language.
		Okrand based the Atlantean language on a hypothetical reconstruction of the language spoken by the early Indo-Europeans using sounds common to modern Indo-European languages and some not found in any of them.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/atlantean.htm (229 words)

	USATODAY.com - New movie trek for wordsmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		No one is happier about Milo's profession than linguist Marc Okrand, who not only created a readable and speakable Atlantean language for the movie, but also invented most of the Klingon and Vulcan dialogue in the Star Trek movies.
		Okrand was first recruited by Hollywood to develop the Vulcan lingo used in 1982's Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
		The actors already were filmed talking in English, and Okrand came up with syllables for the performers to lip-sync that matched their mouth movements.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/2001-05-24-atlantis-lingo.htm (622 words)

	EXN.ca \| Discovery
		Okrand first used the six lines of Klingon uttered in Star Trek: The Motion Picture - not authored by him - as the building blocks of the language.
		Okrand's the first to admit Klingon is not a language for those who are tongue-timid.
		On one level, Okrand admits that the whole Klingon phenomenon is a little odd, but he also thinks it's a neat diversion for someone who normally worries about soap operas for a living.
	www.exn.ca /Stories/1996/11/12/01.asp (717 words)

	Klingonska Akademien - Archive of Okrandian Canon.
		(text) Marc Okrand talks about how he invented the language (chose the words, created the phonology, and why homophony was introduced), how long it took, and about his and other people's skills in Klingon.
		This cassette was based upon the book with the same name, and produced without Marc Okrand's direct involvement, thus it is not unexpected that it does not have much to offer the student of Klingon.
		(text) Bill describes a meeting with Marc Okrand at BabelCon 2, in which he talks about the words toQ and yoymoHwI'; the suffix -Ha'; the new book, KGT; humor in the language; and the MSN word definitions.
	klingonska.org /canon (2185 words)

	Marc Okrand
		Marc Okrand is most famous as the author of the dictionary of the Klingon language and all its addenda.
		Okrand previously worked with Native American languages, from which he borrowed the unusual Klingon tlh sound (common in North and Central American indigenous languages, in which it is usually transcribed as tl; this is the sound at the end of Nahuatl as the Aztecs pronounced it themselves).
		Recent work includes the Atlantean language which he was hired to do for Disney's film Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/m/ma/marc_okrand.html (169 words)

	Marc Okrand - Memory Alpha - A Wikia wiki
		Marc Okrand - Memory Alpha - A Wikia wiki
		Okrand's basis for the Klingon language came from the few samples spoken in Star Trek: The Motion Picture which were made up by James Doohan.
		Marc Okrand is most famous as the author of The Klingon Dictionary and all its addenda.
	www.memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Marc_Okrand (248 words)

	LINGUIST List 3.286: OVS, Klingon
		By day, Okrand is a linguist at the National Captioning Institute in Northern Virginia.
		At the studio comissary, Okrand's friend introduced him to the secretary to the executive producer of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan." In the course of conversation, the secretary mentioned that her boss was looking for a linguist to script a brief scene in Vulcan, the language of Mr.
		Okrand hopes there will be more Star Trek in his future--perhaps dictionaries of the other imaginary space languages, Vulcan and Romulan.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/3/3-286.html (842 words)

	Marc Okrand: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Marc Okrand devised the dialogue and coached the actors speaking the Klingon language heard in "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock," "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," and "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country".
		Marc Okrand, a Ph.D. in linguistics, specialized in Indian Languages of the West Coast.
		He taught Linguistics at the University of California and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Anthropology Department of the Smithsonian Institute.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Okrand_Marc_71010588.htm (439 words)

	LINGUIST List 2.733: Klingon
		Okrand (PhD Linguistics UCB) is the linguistic con sultant for the Startrek movies.
		That Klingon tends towars polysynthesis is not surprising since Okrand's dissertation was the grammar of a California Indian language.
		u.washington.edu) Marc Okrand did indeed design the Klingon language used in _Star_Trek_V:_The_ _Final_Frontier_ (it also appeared, with subtitles, in the first and third movies and is slated for the sixth).
	linguistlist.org /issues/2/2-733.html (568 words)

	TIME.com: Klingon: The Final Frontier -- Apr. 5, 1993 -- Page 1
		It was invented by a linguist named Marc Okrand, whose business is producing closed captions for television.
		On it, Okrand and Michael Dorn, who plays Klingon Lieutenant Worf in TV's Star Trek: The Next Generation, teach you how to insult your enemies, curse and ask where the bathroom is when you visit the Klingon Empire.
		But what has stunned Okrand and his delighted publisher, Simon & Schuster, is that folks are assiduously studying -- and speaking -- the language, though learning it is a real oy (pain).
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,978143,00.html (723 words)

	Athena Marc Okrand Talk 10-21-00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Marc Okrand was kind enough to do a talk for the crew of the Athena on 10/21/00 on both linguistics in general and the Klingon Language.
		Marc compares the structure of the Klingon language to those used on Earth (try to see the detail on the board...
		Marc was kind enough to autograph Martin Bonica's copy of the Klingon Dictionary (although, Marc did decline taking home a pet tribble)
	ussathena.org /okrand/main.html (132 words)

	Klingon - Langmaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Klingon, the language of the Klingon race from Star Trek, was briefly sketched by James Doohan and fully designed by Marc Okrand.
		Okrand invented the Klingon language for Star Trek, and there are many commercial products available to help with learning the language, including a dictionary, audiotapes and a multimedia software tutor.
		The Klingon dialogue in Star Trek: The Motion Picture was devised by James Doohan and spoken by Mark Lenard, who, of course, played the Klingon commander in that film.
	www.langmaker.com /db/Klingon (477 words)

	Fredericksburg.com - Inventor of Klingon to lecture at MWC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When Marc Okrand created the Klingon language for a movie back in 1984, he never thought anyone else would use it.
		Tomorrow evening, Okrand will be at Mary Washington College to speak about "Language and Science Fiction: The Case of Klingon" as this year's installment of the Linguistics Speaker Series.
		Okrand now seems to be the go-to guy for movie languages.
	www.freelancestar.com /News/FLS/2003/112003/11172003/1160934 (736 words)

	Express: A Publication of The Washington Post
		But if you're wondering how his obituary will start off, it's: Marc Okrand is the guy who developed the Klingon language.
		» OKRAND: My understanding is what he did is he recorded it on a tape, gave the tape to Mark Lenard, who was the actor who played the Klingon commander.
		Mark, what he did, is he listened to the tape and wrote down, in some transcription that was useful to him, what to say.
	www.readexpress.com /read_freeride/2006/10/qa_marc_okrands_klingon_101_1.php (653 words)

	Marc Okrand - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Marc Okrand es el inventor del idioma klingon.
		Okrand fue contratado por Paramount Pictures para crear el idioma e instruirlo a los actores de Star Trek II: La ira de Khan, Star Trek III: En busca de Spock, Star Trek V: La última frontera, Star Trek VI: Aquel país desconocido y Star Trek VII: La próxima generación.
		Okrand impartió cursos de lingüística en la Universidad de California (Santa Bárbara) entre 1975 y 1978.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marc_Okrand (284 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Klingon for the Galactic Traveler
		Marc Okrand has done a number of audio works for Simon & Schuster Audio.
		While this book goes into great detail about the arts, rituals, and everyday life of Klingons, it makes the point over and over that it's best to be cautious when speaking to them.
		Klingon for the Galactic Traveler builds on Marc Okrand's earlier work The Klingon Dictionary.
	www.sfsite.com /05a/kling32.htm (845 words)

	Athena Marc Okrand Talk 10-21-00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Marc Okrand was kind enough to do a talk for the crew of the Athena on 10/21/00 on both linguistics in general and the Klingon Language.
		Marc compares the structure of the Klingon language to those used on Earth (try to see the detail on the board...
		Marc was kind enough to autograph Martin Bonica's copy of the Klingon Dictionary (although, Marc did decline taking home a pet tribble)
	www.ussathena.org /okrand/main.html (132 words)

	Okrand - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
		Okrand - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
		Okrand was the author who wrote Okrand's Unabridged Klingon Dictionary, one of the standard works about Klingonese by 2293.
		This author was named for the inventor of the Klingon language, Marc Okrand.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Okrand (68 words)

	STARTREK.COM : Biography
		Marc Okrand devised the dialogue and coached the actors speaking the Klingon language heard in "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock," "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," and "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country".
		The Klingon language he developed has also been used in a number of episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
		In 1997 Marc added "Klingon for the Galactic Traveler" which studies Klingon language diversity, technical terminolgy, idioms and slang.
	www.startrek.com /startrek/view/library/creative/bio/3380.html (254 words)

	tlhIngan Qummem Main Page
		UPDATE Marc Okrand** has since the later part of 1998 cannonised the use of Qum for the noun COMMUNICATION (as shown on the BoP poster).
		Effectively it should therefore be considered as the same as a name and not really meaning Directory.
		Obviously Marc Okrand can always prove me wrong when or if he ever gives us a word for 'directory'.
	www.angelfire.com /on/tlhInganQummem/QMain.htm (364 words)

	Simon & Schuster: Marc Okrand
		Marc Okrand Titles > Fiction > Science Fiction
		Written by Mark Okrand, the creator of The Klingon Dictionary, Conversational Klingon is an audio program that can teach anyone to speak authentic Klingon.
		All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.
	www.simonsays.com /content/destination.cfm?tab=5&pid=328493,516361,516462 (143 words)

	ter'eS Klingon Pages - Klingon Grammar
		The basic lexicon of Klingon is set out in the books The Klingon Dictionary and Klingon for the Galactic Traveler, both by the language's creator, Marc Okrand.
		A few more words authored by Okrand can be found in the audio books Conversational Klingon and Power Klingon, and various other sources such as a series of trading cards put out by Skybox in the 1990s, even a Hallmark Card Christmas ornament commercial.
		made up by Okrand) words outside of official publications came from Okrand's visits to the annual convention (qep'a') of the Klingon Language Institute, at which he would often reveal new words, either off the cuff or in response to requests, or as prizes in various contests.
	teresh.tdonnelly.org /klinewest.html (514 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Klingon Dictionary: Books: Marc Okrand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Linguist Marc Okrand was asked by the producers of Star Trek III, to expand on the Klingon language, first heard in Star Trek The Motion Picture.
		The book takes you from the sounds of Klingon, through all of the different types of words, to an actual mini dictionary of key words and phrases.
		Okrand wisely didn't try and tinker with the layout though, with tongue firmly in cheek-the idea of a book like this still makes for a fun read.
	www.amazon.ca /Klingon-Dictionary-Marc-Okrand/dp/067174559X (833 words)

	Earthlings: Ugly Bags Of Mostly Water - Michael Dorn, Dr Lawrence M Schoen, Marc Okrand
		This is not a TREKKIES (1997) imitator, but instead an entertaining view of an intellectual (and not-so intellectual) endeavour to sort out and to explore humans and language, and the definitions of success and failure.
		In 1979, Paramount Pictures hired Linguist Dr Marc Okrand to develop the Klingon language as realistic dialogue for its first feature-length STAR TREK film.
		Two audio cassettes (also by Marc Okrand, with narration by Michael Dorn) can assist in learning the sounds of Klingon and provide useful phrases.
	www.phase9.tv /movies/earthlingsuglybagsofmostlywater.shtml (611 words)

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		Few beings have dared to explore the Klingons' culture and discover the infinite depth of their wisdom.
		Now Marc Okrand, a noted expert on Klingon language and lore, has assembled a fascinating collection of adages, in Klingon and English, for contemplation by the meeker races.
		From the man who designed the Klingon language and culture for the Star Trek feature films and Star Trek: The Next Generation, here is a comprehensive sourcebook for Klingon language and syntax--the only one of its kind.
	members.tripod.com /startrekthestore/klingonhomeworld.html (386 words)

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