Naʼvi (constructed language)
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Naʼvi is a constructed language created by linguist Paul Frommer for the fictional indigenous people in James Cameron’s film "Avatar," featuring its own grammar, vocabulary, and phonology.
Observed surface forms (2)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Naʼvi | 0 |
| Na'vi language | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artificial language
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constructed language ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| createdForDirector | James Cameron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdForFranchise | Avatar (franchise) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdForWork | Avatar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Paul Frommer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | film Avatar (2009) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | film and media constructed language ⓘ |
| hasCanonicalWordOrder | flexible (often VOS or SVO) ⓘ |
| hasDictionary | Naʼvi–English lexicons ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
adpositions that can be prepositions or postpositions
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agglutinative morphology ⓘ aspect marking on verbs ⓘ case marking on nouns ⓘ contrastive length in vowels ⓘ derivational morphology via infixes ⓘ dual and trial number in pronouns ⓘ ejective consonants ⓘ free word order ⓘ inclusive and exclusive first person plural pronouns ⓘ infixation ⓘ lenition ⓘ mood marking on verbs ⓘ no voiced stops ⓘ rich inflectional morphology ⓘ syllabic constraints without consonant clusters at onset ⓘ trigender noun system ⓘ vigesimal numeral system ⓘ |
| hasGrammar | described by Paul Frommer ⓘ |
| hasISOCode | none (no official ISO 639 code) ⓘ |
| hasLearningResources | online courses and tutorials ⓘ |
| hasNotablePhrase |
Eywa ngahu
NERFINISHED
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Kaltxì ⓘ Oel ngati kameie ⓘ |
| hasOnlineCommunity |
Naʼvi language learners
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fan-based language forums ⓘ |
| hasPhonology | distinct consonant and vowel inventory ⓘ |
| hasVocabularySize | several thousand words ⓘ |
| inception | 2005 ⓘ |
| influencedBy | natural languages (for phonological and typological inspiration) ⓘ |
| notBasedOn | any single existing natural language ⓘ |
| usedBy | fictional Naʼvi people ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Avatar-related novels and comics
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Avatar: The Way of Water NERFINISHED ⓘ Pandora (fictional moon) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.