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Language of the Lost Empire
"All we need now is an expert in gibberish." - Preston Whitmore
"...and what's really amazing is that if you deconstructed Latin, overlaid it with a little Sumerian, throw in a dash of Thessalanoian, you'd be getting close to their basic grammatical structure. Or at least in the same ballpark. Which is almost exactly like certain obscure offshoots of Chocktaw! Well, obviously using Creek pronunciation, but you get the point, proving once and for all, that Atlantean trade routes accessed the new world centuries before the Bronze Age!" - Milo Thatch
Paul Sherrill has provided a good overview of the grammar: "Atlantean's basic word order is SOV, with postpositions and adjectives that follow their heads, although it appears that adverbs precede theirs. Nouns have at least three cases: the nominative (the root alone), the accusative (root + tem) and the vocative (root + top, like you mentioned). Plurals are formed by adding -en. Verbs add a suffix to indicate tense/aspect and another to indicate person and number. So far I have examples of three 'tenses': the present perfect, present, and future. Most of the time, the two suffixes are easily identifiable, but in a few combinations the tense marker drops or changes a letter or two."
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And the DVD contains Marc Okrand (inventor of Klingon as well as Atlantean) in an instructional video called "How To Speak Atlantean"! He prepared it for Leonard Nimoy and other actors who had to learn Atlantean.
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