A Couple of Questions: Predator Language and Interstellar Tourism

[Paya]

First: Is there any complete or in-depth documentation of the Predator language? Please, link it or tell the book's title if any. I'm looking for a comprehensive lexicon, phonology, morphosyntax, etc. Is there any website or fangroup devoted to expand/develop it?

Second: Is there any mention of touristic cruise starships within the AvP universe? Please, point me to information if any.

Thank you.

[Darkness]

http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Yautja_language

It's non canon stuff from the novels.

[SM]

I think the ship in the Havoc comic might've been a cruise liner.

[Xenomrph]

Yep, the one in Havoc was definitely a cruise liner.

As for Predator language, if you're looking for an in-depth Klingon-esque breakdown, you're going to be disappointed. We know a handful of vocabulary words and that's it.

[Paya]

I think the ship in the Havoc comic might've been a cruise liner.

Yep, the one in Havoc was definitely a cruise liner.

Thank you. Do you remember/know that ship's name? Is there any image of it around the internet?

http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Yautja_language

It's non canon stuff from the novels.

As for Predator language, if you're looking for an in-depth Klingon-esque breakdown, you're going to be disappointed. We know a handful of vocabulary words and that's it.

Pity. I only know that the basic morphosyntax is OVS, just as in Klingon. It's verbal, whatever that means. And has a very small lexicon. Whether or not "verbal" means that all of the words are verbs, I don't know. No information on phonology, phonotactics, morphosyntax, derivational morphology, etc. On the bright side, though, if I ever want to do anything on the language, I can come up with it myself, or invent a new language. There are hundreds of human languages and it's likely that to be the case for yautja/hish too.

Also, the fonts seem to be incomplete. At least, the only font I checked out was lacking the apostrophe which is extensively used in the lexicon, yet I saw no character for it.

[tavianini19]

Not canon, but this was released during the lead up to the Predator 3D.

[Xenomrph]

The ship in Havoc is the Lunar Maru, here's an edited scan from my old AvPOE website:



It's pretty much the only good look you get of the ship in the comic.

[Paya]

In the Xenopedia, I found an article that states Predators "breathe 1% more oxygen, and 4% more nitrogen than humans", is this true? The citation given is "Les Paul Robley (December 1987). Predator: The Original Makeup. Cinefantastique". I guess it's not canon. Can anyone confirm?

[tavianini19]

I recall in some behind the scenes footage from Predator 2, someone says that's why the city hunter uses the breathing apparatus in LA. It's supposed to help emphasizes the polluted air.

[Paya]

I was asking because if predators really breathe 1% more oxygen, and 4% more nitrogen than humans, that means they breath 5% more oxygen-nitrogen (combined). On wikipedia we could get that the percentage of oxygen-nitrogen (combined) is 99.03%, so only 0.97% of Earth's atmosphere consists on other gases. If Yautja Prime has really 5% more oxygen-nitrogen than Earth's, it can only be because it's much bigger, thus its atmosphere is denser, maybe much denser. Comments?

[Xenomrph]

Those numbers sound familiar from somewhere, and I've never heard of "Predator: The Original Makeup. Cinefantastique", so they might have been mentioned somewhere else as well. Perhaps the Weyland Yutani Archive on the AvPR blu-ray? I'd have to check it myself to be sure.

[shadowedge]

I present to you the best Predator language/culture site on the internet: http://www.oocities.org/gunsandgod/intro.html

This is an old Geocities site, but it is still very, very valuable.

[Xenomrph]

Much of it is also completely made-up and/or rips off other fan sites, but that's neither here nor there.

[RakaiThwei]

Much of it is also completely made-up

So what parts are made up? I mean that site has been around since 1995 as far as I can recall and it has a lot of information from the comics and novels.

rips off other fan sites, but that's neither here nor there.

And Joker's The Hunted site is better?

[Xenomrph]

Much of it is also completely made-up

So what parts are made up? I mean that site has been around since 1995 as far as I can recall and it has a lot of information from the comics and novels.

Much of this page is entirely fabricated. A few of the terms (Blooded, Bad Blood, a couple others) can be sourced from the EU, but not necessarily definitions the site ascribes to them. Others (ETA, Honored, the entire "Roles" section, the entire "Consequences" section) are completely made up.

I can verify some of the words on the Language page, but not all of them.

That's just a couple examples.

And Joker's The Hunted site is better?

I didn't say that, especially since I don't know what that site is.