A Na'vi script!!

Toruk Makto · January 12, 2010, 04:08:13 PM

Nicely put. I am not disparaging Ian James for creating this script and I hope many people get enjoyment from it. Personally, I like it, too. But since LearnNavi.org has now been recognized by official Avatar sites, we have to be careful not to appear to be promoting competing material. I hope folks will not think bad of me for my concern about that.

Lythienne · January 12, 2010, 06:01:15 PM

Quote from: Txepäsiyu on January 12, 2010, 04:08:13 PM
Nicely put. I am not disparaging Ian James for creating this script and I hope many people get enjoyment from it. Personally, I like it, too. But since LearnNavi.org has now been recognized by official Avatar sites, we have to be careful not to appear to be promoting competing material. I hope folks will not think bad of me for my concern about that.

when put that way i absolutely understand. I Just know that I'll get some fun out of this, and it would be a shame if it was quashed because its not cannon (and it IS so very not cannon)

Shyiox · January 12, 2010, 06:07:45 PM

Looks good.

I'm writting at school my on Character Set for na'vi. And, you dont belive it, it looks almost like them from the website ^^

But, im waiting for the official letters from Frommer, and its already hard to learn into latin characters.

Eywa ngahu - Shyiox

Meuia te Stxeli Tstew'itan · January 12, 2010, 06:14:34 PM

I think it look very nice and is very fluent. But, as many noted, there is no need for Na'vi to be written as memories can be transmitted by direct mind contact (tsaheylu). On the other side, take a good look at how some Na'vi moves and try to convince me that this should be written left to right. They do just about everything as they are lefties! Right to left maybe

Txur’Itan · January 14, 2010, 12:41:56 PM

James Cameron is artistic by nature and by background. He sketched and created much of the imagery of the world we saw in the Movie Avatar. If he is ever going to want symbols for the language, he is likely to draw them himself for the sake of his films and his vision of the story.

If for whatever reason Cameron or Frommer officially recognises those symbols we could consider it cannon at that time, but for now, it exists in an alternate reality from the current film. Because of this, it is unuseable for learning the language of Na'vi. In much the same way as me creating new symbols from scratch for people to learn English.

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Ok class sing along!

Nìwotxkrr Tìyawn · January 14, 2010, 01:15:14 PM

It look very nice indeed but I have to agree with everyone else that there isn't a use for it, but you never know, if they do end up going to another moon in Avatar 2 and who knows, there could be Na'vi that got cut off from Eywa and had to find another way to store information. It's a stretch but entirely possible.

thg · February 05, 2010, 06:52:56 PM

If the Na'vi were to invent a script, I think it would run vertically, like trees. An example from earth is classic mongolian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_script

And perhaps it would be "written" top-to-bottom, right-to-left around special trees whose bark was designed to display such symbols without damage.

Txon Taronyu · February 05, 2010, 06:55:20 PM

Perhapes this would be used not to write events but just as decoration on the walls of there homes