73 zetyaro (Kryptonian days) per lorax (Kryptonian month). However, he later admits this was a ploy to negotiate a higher bounty on Superman and there are probably other surviving Kryptonians. Superman was always a leader, but he is no longer the focal point of the League. Under the guidance of Zeta-Rho's A.I. The different castes lived in buildings with different architectural styles that represented various styles throughout Krypton's history. Supergirl notes that while she could not save her cousin, it will not stop her from trying to bring people hope. If Schreyers career is an example, you never know where your childhood dreams and undergraduate research could take you. Kal-El, the name given to Superman by his adoptive Earth name, Clark Kent, is an adaptation of that. They First Barsoom story serialized under the Moons of Mars in 1912 and published as a novel 'A Princess of Mars' in 1917. In Batman/Superman #2, the Dark Knight surprises Superman by revealing that he can speak the language of his alien homeworld. Batman confronts the grieving Supergirl and reveals that Superman was once his friend. written using this transliteration alphabet to replace the native alphabet with a one-to-one correspondence, in a similar fashion to Interlac in Legion of Super-Heroes. Doyle is credited in Through the Valley of Death, but no Kryptonian was used. It is written as a different language than English and is spoken as a second language. Taino | She helped Clark on Earth until her death a short time after her escape from the Phantom Zone. Schreyer has happily fielded emails from fans who want to get tattoos in the syllabic writing system, which she responds to when she has time and a word that answers the request. write things in English in the comics. Copyright 19982023 Simon Ager | Email: | Hosted by Kualo, http://www.supermanhomepage.com/comics/comics.php?topic=comics-kryptonian_alphabet, Constructed scripts for constructed languages. Batman, his allies and the remaining Regime members manage to overload the shields protecting Brainiac's ship. Almost all Kryptonians were killed when the planet exploded shortly after the infant Kal-El was sent to Earth. You know, a lot of the changes I did to that alphabet for my writing system [PDF] (which is a full writing system and not just a font substitution) were based off of being able to hand-write the letters. The 2021 television series Superman & Lois featured characters speaking the Doyle version of Kryptonian in the season 1 episodes Man of Steel, Loyal Subjekts, and O Mother, Where Art Thou?. What will happen now that Superman is dead? This research focused on how languages are embedded in landscape and how people can learn about language in tandem with reclaiming knowledge of the land. Jor-El's delinquent neighbor, Dev-Em believed his warnings enough to build a shelter that survived the destruction of Krypton and was propelled through space. She is still hopeful this may be an option in the future as the franchise develops. You can build on the knowledge and wisdom that it provides. })(); For the 2013 film, Man of Steel, linguistic anthropologist Christine Schreyer was brought in to develop a new and unique writing system and spoken language for Krypton, unrelated to any previous depictions of Kryptonian. Kal-El is raised on Earth as Clark Kent and becomes Superman. Kryptonian Spoken in the Superman universe within DC Comics, learning how to speak Kryptonian has 13,200 annual Google searches. The data from the ship was retrieved on Earth and used by the ship to learn more about the languages spoken on Earth, including English. The Neanderthals have been pioneers in space travel and advanced technology since 100,000 years ago. The Kryptonian grammar is off in a couple of places, too but it's not terrible. Presumably they'd have needed to write on Krypton as well, though perhaps as in Star Wars there's no paper Ha- a particular fantasy of mine is to hear a choral Superman theme sung in Kryptonese. Supermans S is an example of an ideogram that means hope. Its also the symbol for his house line, El. Schreyer and her team developed a series of glyphs embedded with deeper meaning that fans could generate for themselves online in a glyph creator. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. In Superman Returns, it is revealed that Clark is father to the half-Kryptonian child Jason White. No one can answer all of these questions. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. As a result, I must be imaginative when referring to the fictional world of Kryptonian. Kryptonian culture and its language (well, its writing, at least) have appeared in many different forms and places over the 75 years of Superman's history. http://www.langmaker.com/db/Kryptonian, A guide to the Kryptonian language Superman merges with Brainiac's ship and imprisons Supergirl in his former cell. In Smallville, Clark Kent initially believes himself to be the last survivor of Krypton. The shape of the writing system, which was tied to the shape of the planet and how the world was imagined, also impacted the [spoken] language.. Yes, Superman is fluent in the English language as well as some others (Superman speaking English) "Is it one of his kryptonian powers?" No. Great simplification! On the television series Smallville, depictions of the written Kryptonian language began, primarily, with English transliterated into the official Kryptonian transliteration font mirroring the practice of the comics. (http://i.imgur.com/k0308dW.jpg?1). Unfortunately, the events in the DC Universe have shown that no two people are ever truly bulletproof. Kryptonese automatically gets points because it's the only writing system on this list that's a syllabary, not an alphabet. Sometimes seeming incompatibilities can be resolved beautifully, but sometimes the effort leaves you fuming over DC's many reboots. This remark appears to prove untrue in Superman II, as prisoners of the Phantom Zone, such as General Zod, also survive the destruction of Krypton. Anyway, if you haven't seen it already, I encourage you to check my site: Kryptonian.info. Our accents are now considered British in the EU, with Imperial Standard speech being spoken as such. The Fortress of Solitude is often portrayed as a recreation of Krypton's surface and a storehouse for all the knowledge that the Kryptonian race had obtained. Jax-Ur was the Kryptonian tyrant who blew up Krypton's moon, Wegthor kind of the Kryptonian Hitler, if you will. Moderator list hidden. She currently does field work in Papua New Guinea documenting Kala, which is spoken in six villages and one of the countrys 862 languages. The Kryptonians find themselves at the mercy of Brainiac's forces and Kara Zor-El barely escapes the destruction of Argo City. In Season Six, Clark discovers his father's assistant Raya was spared by being placed in the Phantom Zone, with her body intact. The ending reveals that Lois Lane will be artificially inseminated with Superman's child and that their descendants will remain super-power heroes centuries into the future. Kryptonian people live there in standard but microscopic, non-superpowered lives. During Brainiac's attack on Metropolis, Supergirl witnesses Wonder Woman's brutal attack on their ally Harley Quinn after Harley tried to stop Wonder Woman from killing the Cheetah, as it violated Batman's no-killing policy. I haven't actually read that comic but I am curious now. Kara also mentions a rumor that Kandor survived the destruction of their home planet but it is never revealed whether this is true. ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? I remember translating it and it was so cool to see what they said without them telling the translation. I would like to hear more Kryptonian spoken (so far it's only on Supergirl a few lines and maybe somewhere else I'm not sure). Alex McDowell production designer for Man of Steel is famous for developing these really intense worlds with so much backstory to them There was so much culture and land that I got to see. In the 1970s, the E. became more widespread. Consider that during their time in space, they probably encountered other species and used translation technology to broadcast in multiple languages simultaneously. Only when youre telling someone you love them or when youre talking about something with them can you use /:zhaoodh khuhp w rraop/. Kryptonese is the official language of Krypton . The Kryptonian society, as described in Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (at least, according to what was seen of its surviving colony) is ruled by aristocracy. They just used this alphabet to So sign up for that directed seminar and pursue what interests you, because you never know it may even take you to an imaginary world. The Man of Steel. Tolkien created not only. Doyle Kryptonians short phrase refers to a good dream because he does not have a word for sweet. Definitely not like English. The language appears in writing Kryptonian is Superman's second language. (function() { In 2011, Warner Brothers approached Schreyer to develop the Kryptonian language for Man of Steel. History With the destruction of Krypton, it is largely considered a dead language, though it is still primarily spoken by those who have survived the planetary catastrophe, specifically, the residents of "New Krypton" and the denizens of the Phantom Zone. I have also had it in the back of my head to create some YouTube "how-to" videos for writing Kryptonian figures, stroke order, that sort of thing too much to do, too little time! It is interesting that the League will come together in the aftermath of Supermans death in their own way. _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); Contact me (Darren Doyle) through any of the social media channels above or email. Thus, 1.676 Kryptonian years equals 2.294 Earth years, or 1 Kryptonian year equals roughly 1.37 Earth years. Kryptonian is a little like Japanese, with both an older system of symbols or glyphs akin to kanji, as well as a syllabic writing system similar to hiragana and katakana. Kal-El is the first (and technically, last) naturally-born Kryptonian in centuries, as Jor-El and Lara believed that Krypton had lost the freedom of choice and wanted their son to choose to become who he wanted to be. By introducing the idea of the Kryptonians speaking their own language, Kal-El would be made even more of an outsider. If people from his own planet were raised speaking Kryptonian, Kal-El's. Kryptonian alphabet appears on the TV show Smallville. var _gaq = _gaq || []; Zack Snyder actually commissioned the creation of an artificial language for the Kryptonians in Man of Steel that we barely even see on screen. 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; Everything is round on Krypton. The syllabic system used for writing is similar to Japanese hiragana and katakana, two popular Japanese forms. The six loraxo (months) were: Belyuth, Ogtal, Ullhah, Eorx, Hefralt and Norzec. In Season Five, Clark discovers that the Disciples of Zod: Nam-Ek & Aethyr and a Kryptonian artificial intelligence: Brain-Interactive-Construct aka Brainiac arrive on Earth, serving Zod's trapped spirit. For the masculine form, one dot is used, and two for the feminine form. The Canadian Mint even asked her to do some work for commemorative Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman coins they had produced. In its most basic form, the polite imperative form of please do is spelled out in the comic book world of Kryptonian. According to one story, in which the Phantom Zone prisoner Quex-Ul had served his full sentence, 18 Kryptonian sun-cycles (amzeto) is about 25 Earth years. Russian | In Man of Steel, Kryptonians are depicted as a genetically-engineered race of beings. referring to the language as 'Kryptonian'. Click over to the Man of Steel Kryptonian Writing page for a detailed breakdown of the writing including a downloadable chart, as well as the phonology of the language. Turkish | The writing can be seen in several places on Superman's suit in the subsequent films Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017). Characters, character names, logos, and related indicia are of and DC Comics. I remember reading about it. In addition Kryptonian beings are vulnerable to infection from viruses or bacteria native to Krypton. The shape of the script itself reflects the connection of land and language so prevalent in Schreyers research. If you've heard about how his suit was a little different in BvS, with a Joseph Campbell quote* sewn in, it's in this new alphabet and language. Thanks! Twitter user @Rachelyoubish has been doing some amazing breakdowns of the Kryptonian writing seen in Man of Steel. J.R.R. These three were the surviving Kryptonians, who became Earth's heroes.