cholling on Nostr: Funny that. Marc Okrand, the creator of the Klingon language for the Star Trek ...

Funny that. Marc Okrand, the creator of the Klingon language for the Star Trek movies, was a linguist specializing in languages of the natives of the Pacific Northwest. He deliberately incorporated some of those languages' features because, to an audience familiar only with English and maybe one or two closely related (Indo-European) languages, they would seem more "alien".