Atlantean

About

The Atlantean language, also known as Dig Adlantisag, is a fictional language developed by Marc Okrand for the 2001 Disney film Atlantis: The Lost Empire. It is designed to sound like a real human language, drawing inspiration from Proto-Indo-European and incorporating elements from ancient languages such as Biblical Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. The language is presented as the "Tower of Babel language," a root dialect from which all languages descended. It features a rich phonetic inventory and unique phonological patterns. Atlantean has an agglutinative grammar with a subject-object-verb word order, differing from English's subject-verb-object structure. The language includes its own script, created by John Emerson with Marc Okrand's input, inspired by ancient writing systems. The script is typically written in boustrophedon style. Atlantean has gained popularity among fans and language enthusiasts, inspiring learning resources and communities dedicated to its study. Its creation has set a benchmark for fictional languages in media, influencing other constructed languages in the entertainment industry.