Disney has Invented a Whole New Linguistic System
It wasn’t enough for the makers of Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire(2001) that the myth of an ancient underwater city be explored; they also wanted to invent an entirely new language for the inhabitants of Atlantis.
Marc Okrand, an American linguist best known for developing the Klingon language for the Star Trek series, created the Atlantean language. About 1,000 of Okrand’s words appeared in the film.