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  2. Klingon language - Wikipedia

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    The Klingon language (Klingon: tlhIngan Hol, pIqaD: , pronounced [ˈt͡ɬɪ.ŋɑn xol]) is the constructed language spoken by a fictional alien race called the Klingons in the Star Trek universe. Described in the 1985 book The Klingon Dictionary by Marc Okrand and deliberately designed to sound "alien", it has a number of typologically uncommon ...

  3. Klingon scripts - Wikipedia

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    The Klingon scripts are fictional alphabetic scripts used in the Star Trek movies and television shows to write the Klingon language . In Marc Okrand 's The Klingon Dictionary, the Klingon script is called pIqaD, but no information is given about it. When Klingon letters are used in Star Trek productions, they are merely decorative graphic ...

  4. Languages in Star Wars - Wikipedia

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    Languages in. Star Wars. The Aurebesh alphabet is the primary constructed script seen throughout the franchise. The Star Wars space opera universe, created by George Lucas, features some dialogue spoken in fictional languages. The lingua franca of the franchise is known in-universe as Galactic Basic, which refers to the language of the film or ...

  5. Universal translator - Wikipedia

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    A universal translator is a device common to many science fiction works, especially on television. First described in Murray Leinster 's 1945 novella "First Contact", [ 1] the translator's purpose is to offer an instant translation of any language . As a convention, it is used to remove the problem of translating between alien languages when it ...

  6. List of Egyptian hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    The total number of distinct Egyptian hieroglyphs increased over time from several hundred in the Middle Kingdom to several thousand during the Ptolemaic Kingdom.. In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hieroglyphs, Gardiner's sign list, the basic modern standard.

  7. Asterisk - Wikipedia

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    The asterisk ( / ˈæstərɪsk / * ), from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek ἀστερίσκος, asteriskos, "little star", [1] [2] is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star .

  8. Microsoft Translator - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Translator is a multilingual machine translation cloud service provided by Microsoft.Microsoft Translator is a part of Microsoft Cognitive Services [1] and integrated across multiple consumer, developer, and enterprise products, including Bing, Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Lync, Yammer, Skype Translator, Visual Studio, and Microsoft Translator apps for ...

  9. Astronomical symbols - Wikipedia

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    The use of astronomical symbols for the Sun and Moon dates to antiquity. The forms of the symbols that appear in the original papyrus texts of Greek horoscopes are a circle with one ray () for the Sun and a crescent for the Moon. [3] The modern Sun symbol, a circle with a dot (☉), first appeared in Europe in the Renaissance.