Superman Kryptonian

Assistant Professor Christine Schreyer of the Irving K. Barber School of Arts & Sciences can finally disclose her secret identity.
The linguist and anthropologist at UBC's Okanagan campus served as a consultant for the Hollywood blockbuster Man of Steel.

[@Cheeseaddicteddaleks]

How much cooler would Man Of Steel have been if you actually heard the language being spoken!!!

[@MrTwhispers]

You do temporarily when Zod does the who you are not alone thing.

[@leysont]

+Yung Kirk You mean in the TV? How would anyone know there was a conlang among the other languages like Chinese and Spanish?

[@cameoshadowness7757]

Erich Martens They'll search it up. That's what I do when I hear a language not familiar (to an extent) to me.

[@andrewtodaro2874]

Yes! The Krypton scenes would have had an otherworldly epic feel, like seeing Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto

[@CavemanJesus4Life]

I do believe they used this in the Supergirl show. Kara has said multiple words in Kryptonian along with Martian Manhunter

[@Ken19700]

It pisses me off that it's been six years and this language still isn't available to the public.

[@bdemontork]

Nine years so far.

[@joebonds3072]

Here is a partial, docs.google.com/document/d/1Xo7A4ZlfXJ8a_xMCvGDe3cVntfCa9uG7qM3BBJgDGeA/edit

[@NoPersona]

10 now

[@AngeloQuintero]

11 now ​@@NoPersona

[@magvs_mæstro216]

I just wrote down the whole Kryptonian alphabet. However. You are absolutely right. There needs to 🐝 a course on it like Klingon. What other languages are you learning to hold you over? You just gave me an idea for a channel name: **The Lingual Junkie** -Its my fix, and I need it now🧐🤌

[@PatrickRamseymusic]

Someone should do an opera in Kryptonian about the death of the planet.

[@cameoshadowness7757]

Patrick Ramsey YAS!😍 We need it!

[@Strickalator]

Ok. I'll get on board with that. I need to learn official Kryptonese.

[@Ken19700]

At the very least we'd get to hear what it sounds like.

[@magvs_mæstro216]

This

[@magvs_mæstro216]

😢I wanna learn Kryptonian too, cuh. On hood ;)

[@TerraUchiha1]

#Esperanto! Kryptonians speak it; kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXvNf3eoiMdnh7s

[@MacabreGhosty]

I can write and read Kryptonian, but the comic version. This is very interesting actually!😄😍❤

[@karinatorrens5848]

Fleur Wignand how did you learn?!! Teach me!

[@redvelvet1508]

As did I. Would love to actually speak Kryptonese.

[@magvs_mæstro216]

Dude. Its so crazy because 718 days ago, the desire to learn Kryptonian, or anything other than Spanish or Japanese was absent

[@magvs_mæstro216]

Also......please start a channel, and teach us. LATIN: Quī docet, discit/He who teaches learns

[@Ken19700]

I wish that all of the Kryptonians in the movie actually spoke Kryptonian.

[@magvs_mæstro216]

Rao👋

[@andrewtodaro2874]

Bravo on creating this language! It looks beautiful like a cross between Sanskrit and elvish from LOTR. I'm totally into non Roman alphabetic languages.

[@leysont]

A language doesn't look. Why do people keep confusing languages with writing systems?

[@RevRook]

This is a new version of the language. All other forms were made by artist to look good, this is formed to have a "real world" use as spoken and or written.

[@Uttrediay]

I wonder if she considered this bit of Kryptonian: Bulzkf gmtlo svltw kle Flmmo gtfnz plobf Bgtuzd iizgtfn df… Zbiimul bri tltwzk g… Bjizfk gtfn flomt gi - which is from a 60s story where Kal-El forgets his English under the influence of red kryptonite.

[@jonathanking471]

But isint english his first language considering he didn't learn kryptonese untill later In life

[@LobotanyPictures]

This is pretty incredible. The production designer for Man of Steel wanted to go the extra mile and make a completely functional language that can be read, written and spoke - not some comic book artist's attempt at a Pig Latin equivalent. The language itself was built around Superman mythology and tailored to glimpses of Kryptonian life that truly makes it relevant to the entire Superman universe.

[@dark_assassinfgc8947]

Awesome alphabet design, I hope we can get a more structured grammar and more stable vocabulary. Word order should remain SOV, the pluralization system of the language should also have a dual form (like in na’vi and quenya). Include special particles to mark the object of a sentence like Japanese. I’m not sure of how the verbs would work and be structured. But I think it should still remain simple and somewhat regular to learn.

[@easolstice]

Anyone else watching this after the announcement of the Snydercut?

[@jerelmercurio4754]

Brilliant approach with sound waves. Different types of waves are made by a record needle on spinning multi sided dice. The only way to really know the language lies in the green crystal. Unfortunately they never have used the actual Kryptonian script that I've seen, to date. I am 40 yrs old. In over 20 yrs, Ive been able to find inside that green crystal, a paragraph written in kryptonian. Ive made several hundred 3D scientific memes, to Illustrate. As I am a symbologist, not a linguist, decrption is tedious. I am willing to work with any serious individual with the ability to contribute. I have thrown away careers for this. My life is not a joke and neither is this.

[@morrazzo4432]

I love the language of Kryptonese 😢 but I can't find good conversation dialogues anywhere in the internet 😢 can anyone help me 😢

[@kryptahniuo]

Great job, Dr. Schreyer!

[@AngeloQuintero]

We are still waiting a book with more details

[@tomantunes1077]

that would be so awesome to see in the movie. at least we could see the alphabet on the suits.

[@milesmatheson1142]

NERD ALERT! lol, jk

[@vulk3797]

Excellent and amazing:-D!

[@officerscar]

I've been starting to write in Kryptonian symbols recently that I'm able to now translate them so now I want to learn how to actually speak in Kryptonian

[@jahnvirawat9743]

Hi! Could you tell me how to spell Amazon,( in the greek pronunciation) in MOS krytonian or kryptonese?

[@gregoryreyes5654]

I want to learn the language

[@kenibnanak5554]

Trapif trataW haka.

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

I am a lor house to

[@stevefromcali]

Very good work on creating an interesting language and adding depth to this in-movie universe. I did want to mention that, while she says "This is the first time a created language has gone along with symbols that have been shown....", written Klingon language, to go along with the full spoken Klingon language (created by linguist Marc Okrand in 1984 for Star Trek III), dates back to as early as the late 1980s in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Examples are at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language (a ways down the page).

[@RobChav504]

Is it possible to access the Deep Space Radio Wave Project to get my name and glyph , or another website? Awesome and amazing work on creating this original new language.

[@unseen_stranger]

Nice work, and great to see linguistics in the spotlight, but at 2:45 Dr. Schreyer says "This is the first time a created language has gone along with symbols that have been shown." Is she referring to languages developed exclusively for film or TV? Because Tolkien's languages and orthographies would seem to be a glaring contradiction...

[@xenoinosuke1429]

i used that test and my kryptonian symbel is da

[@xenoinosuke1429]

+darkgundam lord no w it was em

[@MarkFilipAnthony]

I bet she got a good sallery. The wallsymbols on krypton is in kryptonian. I still wish they taked kryptonian in the movie"

[@adamleman4393]

She may have, mabey it helped her form this kryptonion language

[@EdWiley671]

I don’t understand why you would put so much effort into creating lore, culture, history, ecology and overall world building into a movie if you weren’t going to actually capitalise on it beyond the first 10 minutes of the film. Just make a Krypton movie.

[@philippenjock7326]

It was supposed to be a saga, with prequels, sequels etc...

[@GOKUss99]

existe un diccionario o algo parecido?

[@BurnTheMoon]

I belong to house of Ark!

[@thebatburger]

Lol she copied some stuff in Latin

[@AbsoluteJohnarchy]

Awesome work

[@dankishrogue5711]

she is so talented

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

I am making a language for my book known as Êstanakačal pronounced. ee-stah-nah-kah-chahl

[@leysont]

+Kingaming 9000 Is it on the Conlang Wikia or anything similar?

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

+Erich Martens I have lessons on my channel just go under the conlang playlist

[@leysont]

Yes, I watched them, but something written like a wiki(a) article is a little more professional. On conlang.wikia.com you can make tables about the phonology, grammar, orthography and stuff. Also I have the feeling, your language is more like a code than an actual language. It seems you only invented words for English words like 'the', 'thanks' and others, without making an actual grammar or having etymologies for the words. If I'm wrong about the last part, forgive me.

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

+Erich Martens I recently added non English features like to words for we. One that means speaker and listener and one that mean speaker and friends But thanks for the suggestion I might join the wiki. Also I'm making the language is a fictional conlang for a race of people in a book I am writing

[@leysont]

+Kingaming 9000 inclusive and exclusive pronouns... nice. What about case, gender, tense, mood etc? Have you considered these grammatical categories?

[@batmanfanizationreborn6055]

This is brilliant

[@렉스다이노코어]

Awesome

[@jacerokks]

......Damn