{"id":190,"date":"2009-12-21T14:25:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T21:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2009-12-21T14:25:13","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T21:25:13","slug":"nang-niul-si-niul-si-niul-navi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Nang! N\u00c3\u00ac&#8217;ul s\u00c3\u00ac n\u00c3\u00ac&#8217;ul s\u00c3\u00ac n\u00c3\u00ac&#8217;ul Na&#8217;vi!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=121350582\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two Na'vi\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/artslife\/movies\/2009\/12\/avatar\/twoaliens.jpg?t=1260562020&#038;s=2\" title=\"Two Navi\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The information on Na&#8217;vi just keeps coming! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=121350582\">Here<\/a> is a story on NPR from Dec. 15. There are some very nice examples of Frommer speaking Na&#8217;vi (and even getting Renee Montagne to try her tongue at it).<\/p>\n<p>The movie has only been out a few days and already a fan community has begun to coalesce around the language. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnnavi.org\/\">Learn Na&#8217;vi<\/a> for some grammar, vocabulary, and phonetics that have been gleaned from publicly available sources. Nothing &#8220;official&#8221; from Frommer or Cameron&#8230;yet. Incidentally, this is where the title of this post was cobbled together from. It&#8217;s supposed to read &#8220;Wow! More and more and more Na&#8217;vi.&#8221; In addition to this site, there&#8217;s a Facebook group already in existence as well &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=240828625238\">Learn the Na&#8217;vi language<\/a> &#8212; with the description <em>&#8220;Kaltx\u00c3\u00ac! Ngaru lu fpom srak?<\/em> which, as far as I can tell, roughly means &#8220;Hello! How are you?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The information on Na&#8217;vi just keeps coming! Here is a story on NPR from Dec. 15. There are some very nice examples of Frommer speaking Na&#8217;vi (and even getting Renee Montagne to try her tongue at it). The movie has only been out a few days and already a fan community has begun to coalesce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,162,45,51,43],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-facebook","tag-film","tag-navi","tag-npr","tag-online-resource"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}