Marc Okrand is the creator of the Klingon language. He was hired by Paramount Pictures to develop the language and coach the actors on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and Star Trek: The Next Generation. His first work was dubbing in Vulcan language dialogue for The Wrath of Khan, since the actors had already been filmed talking in English. The Klingon language or Klingonese (tlhIngan Hol in Klingon) is a constructed language – an artistic language created by Marc Okrand for Paramount Pictures and spoken by Klingons in the fictional Star Trek universe. ... The Paramount Pictures logo used since 2003. ... Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Paramount Pictures, 1982; see also 1982 in film) is the second feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ... Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Paramount Pictures, 1984; see also 1984 in film) is the third feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ... Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Paramount Pictures, 1989; see also 1989 in film) is the fifth feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ... Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Paramount Pictures, 1991; see also 1991 in film) is the sixth feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ... The title as it appeared in most episodes opening credits. ... Vulcans are a humanoid species in the fictional Star Trek universe who reside on the planet Vulcan and are noted for their attempt to live by reason and logic, with no interference from emotion. ...

Marc Okrand is most famous as the author of the dictionary of The Klingon Dictionary and all its addenda. The Klingon Dictionary is a book by Marc Okrand describing the Klingon language. ...

Okrand previously worked with Native American languages. His 1977 doctoral dissertation from the University of California, Berkeley, was on the grammar of Mutsun, a dialect of Ohlone (a.k.a. Southern Costanoan), which is an extinct Utian language formerly spoken in the north central Californian coastal areas from Northern Costanoan down to 30 miles south of Salinas. The tlh sound that he incorporated into Klingon, unusual to English speakers with the accents of North America and Oceania, is common in North and Central American indigenous languages, in which it is usually transcribed as tl or tł (a voiceless alveolar affricate with lateral release); this is the sound at the end of Nahuatl as the Aztecs pronounced it themselves. To English speakers of most other accents it is the final consonant sound in the word kettle. A Hupa man, 1923 The term indigenous peoples of the Americas encompasses the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the European explorers in the 15th century, as well as many present-day ethnic groups who identify themselves with those historical peoples. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... The University of California, Berkeley (also known as the University of California at Berkeley, UC Berkeley, Cal, California, or Berkeley) is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system. ... Area where the Mutsun language was spoken The Mutsun (or San Juan Bautista) language is an extinct Costanoan language of the U.S. state of California. ... Map of the Costanoan languages The Ohlone (formerly Costanoan) are an ethnic group whose members lived in what is now the San Francisco Bay Area and Monterey Bay areas of California until after the European discovery and settling of this area. ... The word Aztec is usually used as a historical term, although some contemporary Nahuatl speakers would consider themselves Aztecs. ...

Okrand taught undergraduate linguistics courses at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 1975 to 1978. University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a coeducational public university located on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara County, California. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...

More recently, Okrand created the Atlantean language for the Disney film Atlantis: The Lost Empire. The Atlantean language is a constructed language created by Marc Okrand for Disneys film Atlantis: The Lost Empire. ... The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ... Milo trying to convince scholars of Atlantis existence. ...

Okrand currently serves as the Director for Live Captioning at the National Captioning Institute.