Dune - caladanian writing system

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Dune - caladanian writing system

Postby DaveAgain » Mon Jan 24, 2022 1:02 pm

In the trailer for the 2021 Dune film, there is a glimpse of a printed book, it looks as if the imaginary folk of Caladan used a script vaguely like Sanskrit. :-)

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The man who crafted the languages of Essos for HBO’s Game of Thrones is heading to Arrakis. Dothraki and Valyrian language builder David J. Peterson is doing language work for Denis Villeneuve’s highly-anticipated Dune.

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Re: Dune - caladanian writing system

Postby zenmonkey » Mon Jan 24, 2022 3:14 pm

DaveAgain wrote:In the trailer for the 2021 Dune film, there is a glimpse of a printed book, it looks as if the imaginary folk of Caladan used a script vaguely like Sanskrit. :-)

Sound like they spoke German too!
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Re: Dune - caladanian writing system

Postby Eireannach » Thu Jan 27, 2022 10:05 am

That's quite interesting.

I remember reading somewhere that Frank Herbert used 'Pseudo-Arabic' words when writing the books, taking Arabic as the inspiration and changing it slightly. As I believe his only Arabic resource was a dictionary, it achieves an 'exotic-sounding' language without having to put all the effort into crafting one tolkien style.

If I find where I read that, I'll come back and edit in a link! (If I can, I am new to the forum)
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