Hello there! My name is Marc Okrand. I'm an American linguist known for creating the Klingon language in Star Trek as well as the Atlantean language for the Disney film Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Let me tell you a bit about my background and work.

I obtained my bachelor's degree in linguistics from UC Santa Cruz in 1970 and then earned my Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1977 with a dissertation on the grammar of the Mutsun language, once spoken by the Ohlone people of California. My academic focus ha