(Sometimes sounded like it might actually be ?) “my right hand,” the Thark name given to John Carter by Tars Tarkas. It’s hard to get everything written down!) “Jump! Jump like you did before.” (-Tars Tarkas) “…hell are you?” (spoken by Tars Tarkas upon seeing Carter, following Carter’s own “What the…” utterance.) (Of course maybe the unreleased ones are not word-final and my word-boundary guesses are wrong…) It seems like voiceless stops are mostly aspirated word-finally, but then some of them sounded unreleased. (I’m pretty sure I confused some k’s and t’s.) And of course I’m totally guessing at word boundaries. (So glad I had my notebook with me!) I’ll update this post when I’m able to watch the movie again, because there are some lines I didn’t catch and it’s also possible that I didn’t hear everything clearly. (As opposed to the alien languages in Star Wars, which are basically jibberish and not even consistent with themselves.) In researching Barsoom I also discovered that Frommer has a blog in which he discusses grammatical aspects of Na’vi, and I can’t wait to find time to start pouring over that information! (You can get a head start on me by reading his blog here.)Īnyway, here’s as much as I was able to transcribe during my first viewing. I’m extremely jealous of Frommer, but I’m also grateful for his work to make these fiction-based languages “real” and rule-based the way languages actually are, because it makes it so much more fun to analyze and try to learn them. The linguist hired to work on developing the limited inclusions in Burroughs’ novels into a fully-functioning spoken language for the movie was Paul Frommer, who is also responsible for creating the Na’vi language spoken in Avatar. Preliminary googling on Barsoom turns up this general info and word list page, as well as this article about expanding Burroughs’ linguistic creation for the movie. Of course those scenes instantly became my favorite, because I am a language nerd. Most of the time, her eyes are blue, but they have also appeared to be purple and brown.Never having read any of the Barsoom novels (by Edgar Rice Burroughs), I didn’t know before seeing the movie that the inhabitants of Mars (Barsoom) would be speaking some lines in a novel language. She became Queen of Barsoom after her father disappeared, though this was not permanent.Pistol - She has on occasion used a pistol in combat, sometimes with her blade. She has most recently teamed up with Tarzan, Jane Clayton, Jason Gridley and a bunch of adventurers in order to help Jason stop a potential threat before it's too late.īattleaxes - As Larka, she used two battleaxes when in combat. After escaping Helium, she began using the name Larka. Thana, Dejah's servant, had arrived to help her escape moments later, and the two went to see Orion, who helped Dejah escape Helium. She was therefore arrested, and while in the prison cell, an assassin sent by Valoris had attempted to kill her, but she was able to overpower him and kicked him across the face, rendering him unconscious. This is due to her father, Mors Kajak, the King of Helium was missing, and they had accused Dejah of being involved with the disappearance and/or murder (despite no body or evidence of his death being found). Years later, she was accused of committing fraud and betrayal by Valoris, and was to be tried, and if found guilty, she was to be put to death. She had some help from a few Green Martians, may disable a weapon and save both Helium and Thark from it's potential destruction from a group of Green Martians who were planning on using it to wipe out both cities. One of her adventures lead her to the discovery of a plot to destroy two of Barsoom's major cities, which meant she had to disguise herself as a slave to find out more information.
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