broadwaytheanimatedseries:disney-universes:acquaintedwithrask:strampunkgear:foreverdisneynerd:For At
broadwaytheanimatedseries:disney-universes:acquaintedwithrask:strampunkgear:foreverdisneynerd:For Atlantis, Disney needed a new language for the Atlantean people. To do this, Disney hired Mark Okrand, the man who also created the famous Klingon and Vulcan for the Star Trek series. In the Atlantean language, Mark Okrand’s main source for it’s roots and stems of its words are Proto-Indo-European,but as Okrand also described it as being the “tower of babel” or “root dialect” for all languages in the world, he also used ancient Chinese, Latin, Greek, Biblical Hebrew, along with many other ancient languages or their reconstructions. As such, you can actually learn to write and speak the language!This film is so underrated it hurts.ah this explains how they understood french and english so well almost instantly… better than the magical wind in Pocahontas that’s for sureMan, don’t you just wish Atlantis took off as a sci-fi franchise for Disney just so all that world building they did between this and Subterranean Tours could have found more use?In a cooler alternate timeline the most successful Disney movies are Atlantis and treasure planet and every movie that came after them was influenced by their style, charm, and most importantly the creativity and passion that went into every little detail -- source link