[lg policy] Australia: Avatar fans learning Na'vi language

[Harold Schiffman]

This enthusiasm for a constructed language (instead of learning
endangered ones) was also the case
(or maybe "is" is a better word) for Klingon.  I saw a report a few
years ago indicating that more people
were learning Klingon than there are speakers of Navajo.

HS

2010/1/30 Slavomír Čéplö <bulbulthegreat at gmail.com>:
> http://anggarrgoon.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/this-is-why-saving-endangered-languages-is-doomed/
>
> b.
>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Harold Schiffman <hfsclpp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Avatar fans learning Na'vi language
>> Australian News.Net
>> Saturday 30th January, 2010 (ANI)
>>
>> Melbourne, January 30 : 'Avatar' fans Down Under are learning the
>> Na'vi language spoken in the film. Almost a total of 12000 Australians
>> are using www.learnnavi.org to master the 1000 listed words. US
>> designer Sebastian Wolff who has set up the site said he had "vastly
>> underestimated interest" in the language.
>>
>> "Having anticipated no more than a few hundred visitors, the website
>> is getting 15,000 daily visitors, 70 per cent of them new," the Daily
>> Telegraph quoted him as saying.
>> Meanwhile, a mountain [in] China has reportedly been named after the
>> movie.
>>
>> http://www.australiannews.net/story/595114
>>
>>
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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
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