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Bible translations into fictional languages

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Bible translations into constructed languages that were created as part of a fictional setting include:

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Quenya

Quenya is a fictional language devised by J. R. R. Tolkien. Various parts of the Bible have been translated into Neo-Quenya, an attempt at editing a unified Quenya from Tolkien's evolving and often contradictory ideas about the language. Helge Fauskanger has translated the New Testament and the first two chapters of Genesis. Psalm 130 has also been translated by people on the website Aglardh

LOLcat

The LOLCat Bible Translation Project is a wiki-based website where editors aim to parody the entire Bible in "LOLspeak", the slang popularized by the LOLcat Internet phenomenon. LOLspeak has been called "kitty pidgin" and also been likened to baby talk. The project relies on contributors to adapt passages. As of March 27, 2008, approximately 61% of the text had been adapted.

Klingon

  • Klingon Bible Translation Project
  • Co-ordinated by Kevin Wilson, the KBTP has assumed the immense task of translating the books of the Bible, both the Old and New Testaments, into Klingon. Promoted by the Klingon Language Institute (whose goals do not include missionary work, but this project was considered worthy of KLI's efforts for purely secular reasons).

  • North Star Klingon Outpost Library (Google cached copy)
  • NSKOL has published two volumes containing several portions of the Bible translated. One can find online the following specimen:

    The linguist Nick Nicholas has also translated the Gospel of Mark into Klingon Link

    Naʼvi is the constructed language of the Naʼvi, the sapient humanoid indigenous inhabitants of the fictional moon Pandora in the 2009 film Avatar. It was created by Paul Frommer, a professor at the USC Marshall School of Business with a doctorate in linguistics.

    Work on the Naʼvi language has continued even after the film's release. Its creator, Paul Frommer, is working on a compendium which he plans to deliver to Fox in the near future. He think that the language "have a life of its own," and thinks it's "wonderful" that the language has developed a following, as is evident through the increasing learner community of the language.

  • Na'vi Bible Translation Project
  • References

    Bible translations into fictional languages Wikipedia