Avatar, James Cameron's first movie since Titanic, opens Friday, and for it, he's created a new world known as Pandora — and a race of tall blue aliens, too.
The expensive visual effects have gotten a lot of attention, but Cameron also commissioned an entire language for the Na'vi.
Linguist Paul Frommer is the man who built it for him.
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