Barsoomian language
| Barsoomian | |
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| Martian Tharkian |
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| Created by | Paul Frommer, Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| Date | 2010 |
| Setting and usage | 2012 film John Carter |
| Purpose | |
| Sources | constructed languages a priori languages |
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| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
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Barsoomian is the constructed language of the fictional Barsoomians, the sapient humanoid inhabitants of Mars in the Barsoom series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was developed from Burroughs' examples and descriptions by Paul Frommer for the 2012 film John Carter of Mars; Frommer also created the Na’vi language for Avatar.
Spoken Barsoomian has only lexical words, with the equivalent of grammatical words such as prepositions and pronouns conveyed telepathically. There are no inflections, and word order is fixed to verb–subject–object. The vocabulary is relatively simple, with little poetic language.
The effect of the language is rather staccato. There are ten vowels, five long and five short, transcribed short a e i o u and long aa ey ee oa oo; diphthongs are ao (as in how) and ay (as in high). Consonants are similar to English (b d j g, p t tj k, v z, f th s h, r l, m n, w y), with the addition of the velar fricatives ch [x] and gh [ɣ]. Consonants, both voiced and unvoiced, may also be long or short.
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