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Marc Okrand

マーク・オークランド　/　まーく・おーくらんど

American linguist

July 3, 1948 (age 77)　・　Los Angeles, California, United States

California
linguist
Klingonist
writer

My Take

Marc Okrand fascinates me more than most celebrities ever could. A Berkeley-trained linguist whose serious work lies in Native American languages, he is famous instead for inventing Klingon, building an alien tongue from grammar to phonology for Star Trek. That blend of rigorous scholarship and pure imaginative play is rare and wonderful. I respect that he can honor real, endangered languages while also dreaming up an entire fictional one. To me he embodies a love of language for its own sake, useful or not. That kind of curiosity is, frankly, my idea of cool.

Overview

Marc Okrand (; born July 3, 1948) is an American linguist. His professional work is in Native American languages, and he is well known as the creator of the Klingon language in the Star Trek science fiction franchise.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Marc Okrand
Name (Japanese): マーク・オークランド
Reading: まーく・おーくらんど
Born: July 3, 1948 (age 77)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Cancer / Rat
Origin: Los Angeles, California, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
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Occupation: linguist / Klingonist / writer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
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University: University of California, Berkeley

3. Relationships

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4. Personality

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6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89

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