{"id":76,"date":"2009-06-15T19:02:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T02:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2009-08-22T16:10:17","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T23:10:17","slug":"tarzan-and-his-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Tarzan and His &#8220;Languages&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/tarzan-racist-savage-or--first-ecowarrior-1706035.html\">This article<\/a> highlights a new exhibit on Tarzan in the Mus\u00c3\u00a9e du Quai Branly, the museum near the base of the Eiffel Tower. Our conlang connection comes in with this paragraph:<\/p>\n<p><em>Tarzan&#8217;s first spoken language, in the original novel of 1912, was ape-speak \u00e2\u20ac\u201c long before scientists discovered that apes do have a language. The exhibition&#8217;s catalogue contains a fascinating linguistic study of the words used by Tarzan&#8217;s adoptive ape clan, &#8220;the Waziris&#8221;. They have 250 words, including several verbs, which are used only in the infinitive, rather like George Orwell&#8217;s Newspeak. It is worth noting that Tarzan&#8217;s second spoken language in the original novel was French, learned from a French officer rescued from cannibals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erbzine.com\/mag3\/0327.html\">link<\/a> gives a nice summary of the languages in Edgar Rice Burrough&#8217;s Tarzan series. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erblist.com\/erbmania\/tangor\/ape-english.html\">Here<\/a> is a nice online glossary of <em>Mangani<\/em>, the language of the apes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Yel dan-do, yo!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>UPDATE: National Public Radio did a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=111777647\">news story<\/a> on the Tarzan exhibit on Aug. 11, 2009.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article highlights a new exhibit on Tarzan in the Mus\u00c3\u00a9e du Quai Branly, the museum near the base of the Eiffel Tower. Our conlang connection comes in with this paragraph: Tarzan&#8217;s first spoken language, in the original novel of 1912, was ape-speak \u00e2\u20ac\u201c long before scientists discovered that apes do have a language. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[7,24],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-book","tag-erb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}