Fictional language

The conworld influences vocabulary (what words the language will have for flora and fauna, articles of clothing, objects of technology, religious concepts, names of places and tribes, etc.

), as well as influencing other factors such as pronouns, or how their cultures view the break-off points between colors or the gender and age of family members.

Sound is also a directing factor, as creators seek to show their audience through phonology the type of race or people group to whom the language belongs.

In 1974, Victoria Fromkin was the first person hired to create a language (Land of the Lost's Paku).

[5] Since then, notable professional language creators have included Marc Okrand (Klingon), David Peterson (Dothraki and others in Game of Thrones), and Paul Frommer (Na'vi).

[10] While in many cases an alien language is but an element of a fictional reality, in a number of science fiction works the core of the plot involves linguistic and psychological problems of communication between various alien species.