Naʼvi

From Naʼvi Naʼvi (“the People”).

Naʼvi (plural Naʼvi)

1. A member of a fictional alien race in the 2009 film Avatar, depicted as tall blue humanoids.
   • 2009 December 1, Julian Sancton, “Brushing up on Na'vi, the Language of Avatar”, in Vanity Fair‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 February 2010:

     Still, the Na’vi—the race of 10-foot smurfs who inhabit the distant planet Pandora in Cameron’s upcoming, $400 million science fiction epic, Avatar—had to speak something.

Naʼvi

1. A constructed language designed by Paul Frommer to be spoken by fictional extraterrestrials in the 2009 film Avatar.
   • 2009 December 1, Julian Sancton, “Brushing up on Na'vi, the Language of Avatar”, in Vanity Fair‎^[2], archived from the original on 10 February 2010:

     Frommer is holding out hope that Na’vi will follow the example of Klingon, which he calls the “gold standard for this alien language niche.”

   • 2012 October 31, Laura Wright, “UT Language Creation Society invites students to learn origins of newer languages”, in The Daily Texan‎^[3], Austin, Tex.: Texas Student Media, University of Texas at Austin, published 8 April 2013, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 August 2020:

     You might be familiar with more a priori conlangs than you think: The Klingon language from the television series "Star Trek," the Na’vi language from the movie "Avatar," and the Dothraki language from the television series "Game of Thrones" are all examples of a priori languages.

   • 2024 April 16, Rebecca Bettencourt (jan Lepeka), et al., “Preliminary proposal to encode sitelen pona in the UCS”, in Unicode‎^[4], pages 2-3:

     Speakers of toki pona have formed a large online community. On Discord, the largest toki pona community claims approximately 13,000 members (as of February 1, 2024), more than the largest Na’vi community at approximately 9,600 members, the largest Interslavic community at approximately 8,000 members, or the largest Esperanto community at approximately 7,400 members.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Naʼvi terms

• Ivan, VAIN, Vani, Vian, Vina, Viña, ivan, vain, vina

• na’vi

From Naʼvi Naʼvi (“the People”).

Naʼvi m (plural Naʼvis)

1. Naʼvi (race)
   • 2010 November 23, Emmanuel Cirodde, “Avatar, retour en coulisses pour l'Edition collector”, in L'Express‎^[5], archived from the original on 2 August 2013:

     Ainsi Gino Acevedo a établi une méthode unique faisant appel aux spécificités de Weta Digital et Weta Workshop (la branche qui fabrique les modèles et accessoires concrets, allant du coutelas à la sculpture monumentale) pour conférer une texture archi-réaliste à la peau des Na'vis. […] "James nous a laissé libre cours pour créer des éléments de la vie Na'vi.

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2. Naʼvi (langauge)