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In the film “Avatar,” Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) teaches the Na’vi language to Jake (Sam Worthington), a “dreamwalker” who is mind-linked to a human controller. |
Ayftozä lefpom ayngaru nìwotx! That’s “Happy Holidays to You All” in Na’vi, the language that was created for the sci-fi blockbuster “Avatar.” The professor who made up that phrase as well as all the alien dialogue in the movie hopes Na’vi does as well as Klingon, another fictional alien tongue that has taken on a life of its own. But for now, that’s out of his hands.
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