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Marc Okrand

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American linguist

Person · Open Library

Born
1948
Works
12

Top works

  • Das offizielle Wörterbuch
  • Dicionário da Língua Klingon
  • Klingon Dict ST Tr
  • The Klingon Way
  • The Klingon Way: A Warrior's Guide (Star Trek: The Klingon Book of Virtues)

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1948-07-03
klingon

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
34
Total plays
88

Marc Okrand (born 1948; pronounced /ˈmɑrk ˈoʊkrænd/) is an American linguist and is most notable as the creator of the Klingon language. Okrand earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1972. 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 Costa

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Marc
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Los Angeles
Occupation
writer
Languages spoken
Klingon
Academic degree
Doctor
Doctoral advisor
Mary Haas
Field of work
linguistics
Image
Marc Okrand Saarbruecken 2023.jpg
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writing language
Klingon
date of birth
1948-07-03
Sources (4)

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