![]() ![]() Keda (Kodi Smit-McPhee) with his father Tau (Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson) and his mother Rho (Natassia Malthe) in Alpha. ![]() So, it’s a case of taking those related languages and estimating them back in time, with a little creative licence as well.” “We know, for example that some languages are related, like French, Spanish and Italian. “I did research on proto-languages-those are estimated languages, for the approximate time range of the movie, which included Proto-Nostratic, Proto-Eurasiatic, and Proto-Dené-Caucasian,” she explains. Not only has she worked to help communities revitalize Indigenous languages in Papua New Guinea and here at home in Canada, she’s an expert in the intentional creation of languages, known as conlangs.Ĭreating a language that may have been spoken 20,000 years ago, however, took some digging. “Nobody really knows what was spoken 20,000 years ago because we don’t have fossils of language,” she says.īut Schreyer knows languages. She began creating an entire language for the 90-minute movie. “It just fit in beautifully with what they were looking for and I was given the whole script and the go-ahead.” “At that time, after the footage was reviewed, I remember the producer saying nobody had any concerns about the language I developed for the test,” recalls Schreyer. Schreyer prepared three scenes and spent the day on the Vancouver set with Smit-McPhee. In fall 2015, producers reached out to her with the task of translating test scenes, like an audition of the language, for lead actor Kodi Smit-McPhee. Enter Schreyer, an associate professor of Anthropology at UBC’s Okanagan campus who specializes in linguistic anthropology and language revitalization. ![]()
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