Kryptonian
From Langmaker
| Conlang | Kryptonian |
| Author | Darren Doyle |
| Year Began | 2003 |
| Language Type | fictional language |
| Lexicon Size | 100 |
| Etymologies | No |
| Grammar | Yes |
| Sample Texts | No |
| Primer | Yes |
Kryptonian, the fictional language language of the Kryptonian race from DC Comics' Superman, was begun with ideas from E. Nelson Bridwell & Al Turniansky's Kryptonese and the official DC Comics Kryptonian transliteration alphabet. This unique orthography was revised (mildly) and extended as the "modern" Kryptonian phonetics, morphology, grammar, and lexicon were developed. In addition to the unique orthography there is a standardized Roman character transliteration system referred to as Kryptonese. This continues to be a work-in-progress.
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Design Principles
One of the goals in designing Kryptonian is to create a language that has a certain degree of familiarity to the way it sounds to a fairly broad linguistic audience, while at the same time being just a little bit "off", so to speak. This is done to reflect both the foreignness of Superman, at the same time as his familiarity and identifiability. The language also seeks to portray a highly scientific culture that seems to us both strongly emotional yet, seemingly, calculatingly dispassionate.
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Language Sources
By necessity of the design principles, several languages have been used loosely to some degree in guiding the development of Kryptonian including English, Irish, Spanish, German, Czech, Japanese, Swahili, Esperanto, Laadan, and Klingon.
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