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I need this to be real so bad! People speculated when he showed up with Angela as Ramonda at that fashion show. That shit was probably a soft-launch of AU T'Challa or T'Challa Jr

We are happy to announce that the themes and dates for this year week will be coming soon! Come celebrate Attuma and Okoye with us this summer!

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This answer's gonna be a long one so buckle up. Also beware that I don't know everything, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about anything (especially when talking about real world languages).

As far as I know, there is only one complete fictional language so, other than Klingon, you wouldn't be able to have full and fluent conversation in fictional tongue. However, a lot of fictional languages have been developed enough to the point where you can have basic conversations in them. Although, if you mean writing systems, it is entirely possible to learn and be fluent!

Now, before I get into it, it's important to understand the difference between languages and writing systems. The three most common types of writing systems are logographic, syllabic, and alphabetic.

Logographic systems use symbols to represent entire words, for example, Chinese. In Chinese, 語 means 'language' — a single symbol to represent a whole word.

Syllabic systems use symbols to represent syllables. An example of this would be Japanese, whereby る represents the syllable "ru." This symbol would be put with others to create a full word.

Alphabetic (also known as phonemic) systems use symbols to represent phonemes, or individual units of sound. The most common example of this would be the Latin alphabet system, the one you are reading right now and the one most often used for English. In this, symbols such as x would be used to represent a single sound, and would be put with other phonemes to create full words.

Writing systems will also have rules as to the direction of the symbols (vertically, horizontally, left to right, top to bottom or vice versa).

A language is a written and/or spoken system of communication. Several languages use the same writing system, for example English and French. In English, a standard, informal greeting would be said as "Hi," whereas in French it would be "Salut." They use the same writing system, however they are unique languages. Languages can also have different rules as to pronunciation.

Now that we've covered that, let's get into fictional languages and writing systems.

My favourite example would be J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of Lord of the Rings. Tolkien was an amazing world-builder and as creating languages and writing systems was a lifelong hobby of his, some made its way into his stories. His most well known language would be Quenya. Tolkien put in a significant amount of time to create words in Quenya such as "parma," which translates to "book."

For one person to create an entire language, with words to account for any and everything, is unrealistic. It is possible to learn all the Quenya words, although there are not enough for someone to have a fluent conversation in.

Tolkien also created a unique writing system, Tengwar (see below).

Tengwar is something that anyone can learn and use fully. It is an alphabetic writing system, and can be used to write English words. There are several rules for Tengwar that don't fit into the photo guide so please see other recourses to learn!

Writing systems in fiction will often follow the same or similar rules to existing writing systems, making it easier to learn. Due to a significant amount of media being of English origin, most writing systems do follow the same rules as the Latin writing system (written horizontally, left to right, top to bottom), although there are some exceptions.

One of these exceptions are Gallifreyan, the writing system of the fictional planet Gallifrey from Doctor Who. This is a logographic writing system, however it is possible to write in English (and many other languages) with this writing system. This system could be more difficult to learn if you have never worked with logographic systems before, however it is still achievable and possible to write fluently with this system.

Additionally, it is possible to learn and write fluently in the writing systems of Mando'a (Star Wars), Simlish (various versions) (The Sims), Kryptonian or Kryptonese (various versions) (Superman), Wakandan (Black Panther), Dovahzul (Skyrim) and many more!

You will find that some fictional writing systems are just randomly drawn symbols and cannot actually be learnt or translated, but there are plenty that are real.

If you're interested in learning any, I highly recommend omniglot as it has the basics of a large variety of fictional and real world languages and writing systems, and provides other recourses to help you learn!

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THE KING LIVES AND THE PANTHER FOR----- IN------- [Blocked from view]