Klingon’s Linguistic Heritage

Speaking of a stoic people, Slate writes about the lingustic origins of Klingon, the invented Star Trek mother-tongue of the Klingon people. The article is penned by Arika Okrent, who is the author of “In the Land of Invented Languages”.

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