For those of you who fell in love with the movie Avatar, the world of Pandora, and the Na'vi race, there is a website that may be of some interest to you. Like the die-hard Star Trek fans who learned Klingon, the invented language of the Star Trek universe, Avatar fans around the world are dying to learn the language of the Pandora natives - Na'vi. Na'vi is the language invented by linguist Paul Frommer (pictured above), a professor at the University of Southern California, who was approached by James Cameron. For those who wish to learn Na'vi, the following link to this website can provide much help on the language's vocab and grammar:
http://www.learnnavi.org/
There you have it... a website dedicated to the Na'vi language. There are other websites out there that also provide information on Na'vi, but so far this seems to be the most dedicated.
Also - just in case you were wondering what the words in the picture above mean, here are their translations from Na'vi to English:
zìsìt - "year"
nì'awve - "first"
muiä - "proper/fair/right"
fpeio - "challenge (ceremonial)"
tireaioang - "spirit animal"
tskxe - "rock"
kllpxìltu - "territory"
AVATAR - "(best. movie. ever.)"
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