Photo: #Among the many special effects in James Cameron's blockbuster film "Avatar," was an invented language for the fictional race of humanoids called the Na'vi.
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Among the many special effects in James Cameron's blockbuster film "Avatar," was an invented language for the fictional race of humanoids called the Na'vi. (Image courtesy 20th Century Fox)

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The language of Avatar


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The movie Avatar has grossed a billion dollars faster than any other. The special effects made Avatar the most expensive movie ever made too, as James Cameron set out to create an entire world out of digital effects. And the script had something special too: a new language. The language's inventor and the film's dialect coach talk about their special verbal effects.

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  • Carla Meyer: dialect coach who worked on the movie Avatar.
  • Paul Frommer: linguistics expert and professor at the business school at University of Southern California.

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