[1] The Atlantean language is therefore based both on historic reconstructions as well as on the elaborate fantasy/science fiction of the Atlantis: The Lost Empire mythos.

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.

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.

"The following is a table that shows the correspondences between the different modes of transcription and also provides the probable IPA values.

[13] Fractions are formed with the suffix -(d)lop: kut 'four', kutlop 'quarter', sha 'five', shadlop 'fifth (part)'.

Most vowels have two prominent allophonic realizations, depending on whether it occurs in a stressed or unstressed syllable.

Aside from the stressed-syllable-based vowel system, the only other example of prominent phonological phenomenon seems to be a special kind of sandhi occurring in verbs, when the pronoun is combined with the aspect marker.

Adjectives and nouns in the genitive case follow the nouns they modify, adpositions appear only in the form of postpositions, and modal verbs follow the verbs that they modify and subsequently take all personal and aspectual suffixes.

The language includes the use of an interrogative particle to form questions with no variation in word order.

These particles are of obscure meaning but are theorized to relate two clauses in a logical yet idiomatic manner.

A possibility exists that, in order to match the lip movement of the characters in the movie and the time of the dialogue, the language had to be shortened, often leaving out key parts of the sentence.

Tab.top,father-VOC,lud.enperson-PLneb.etDEM-PLkwamNEGgesuhelpbog.e.kembe able-PRES-1SGdegPARTyasek.ennoble-PLgesu.go.ntoh.help-FUT.POSB-3PLTab.top, lud.en neb.et kwam gesu bog.e.kem deg yasek.en gesu.go.ntoh.father-VOC, person-PL DEM-PL NEG help {be able}-PRES-1SG PART noble-PL help-FUT.POSB-3PL"Father, these people may be able to help us.