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Naʼvi
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Navi navi nāvi nāvī naʼvi
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Etymology
From en art-nav Naʼvi the People.
Noun
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A member of a fictional alien race in the 2009 film Avatar (2009 film) Avatar, depicted as tall blue humanoids.
en Julian Sancton Brushing up on Na'vi, the Language of Avatar Vanity Fair (magazine) Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2009/12/brushing-up-on-navi-the-language-of-avatar.html 2009-12-01 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20100210081251/https://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2009/12/brushing-up-on-navi-the-language-of-avatar.html
en Pavlo Kazarin A year ago I volunteered as a soldier in the Ukrainian army w:NATO Review https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2023/02/16/a-year-ago-i-volunteered-as-a-soldier-in-the-ukrainian-army/index.html 2023-02-16 We are Harry Potter and William Wallace, the Na’vi and Han Solo. We’re escaping from Shawshank and blowing up the Death Star. We are fighting with the Harkonnens and challenging Thanos. Ukraine is hosting one of the great epics of this century. https://web.archive.org/web/20250331231222/https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2023/02/16/a-year-ago-i-volunteered-as-a-soldier-in-the-ukrainian-army/index.html
Translations
member of the Naʼvi people
Czech: cs Na'vi
Esperanto: eo navio
French: fr Naʼvi m, fr naʼvi m
Japanese: ja ナヴィ navi
Polish: pl naʼvi m f
Russian: ru наʼви
Proper noun
A constructed language designed by Paul Frommer to be spoken by fictional extraterrestrials in the 2009 film Avatar (2009 film) Avatar.
en Julian Sancton Brushing up on Na'vi, the Language of Avatar Vanity Fair (magazine) Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2009/12/brushing-up-on-navi-the-language-of-avatar.html 2009-12-01 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.” https://web.archive.org/web/20100210081251/https://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2009/12/brushing-up-on-navi-the-language-of-avatar.html
en Laura Wright UT Language Creation Society invites students to learn origins of newer languages w:The Daily Texan https://web.archive.org/web/20200814171637/https://thedailytexan.com/life-and-arts/2012/10/31/ut-language-creation-society-invites-students-to-learn-origins-of-newer 14 August 2020 Austin, Tex. Texas Student Media, University of Texas at Austin 2012-10-31 8 April 2013 1090-1108 12033646 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 (2009 film) Avatar," and the Dothraki language from the television series "Game of Thrones" are all examples of a priori languages.
en Rebecca Bettencourt (jan Lepeka), et al. Preliminary proposal to encode sitelen pona in the UCS https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2024/24275-encode-sitelen-pona.pdf 2024-04-16 2-3 w:Unicode 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20250718120956/http://unicode.org/L2/L2024/24275-encode-sitelen-pona.pdf
Translations
the Naʼvi language
Czech: cs naʼvijština
Esperanto: eo navia la navia, eo la navia lingvo
French: fr Naʼvi m, fr naʼvi m
Japanese: ja ナヴィ語 navi go
Korean: ko 나비어
Polish: pl naʼvi m
Russian: ru наʼви
Spanish: es naʼvi m
See also
art-nav
Anagrams
en ainv Ivan VAIN Vani Vian Vina Viña ivan vain vina
en Artificial languages
French
Alternative forms
fr naʼvi
Etymology
From fr art-nav Naʼvi the People.
Noun
m
en Naʼvi race
fr Emmanuel Cirodde Avatar, retour en coulisses pour l'Edition collector w:L'Express https://www.lexpress.fr/culture/cinema/avatar-retour-en-coulisses-pour-l-edition-collector_938841.html https://web.archive.org/web/20130802230453/https://www.lexpress.fr/culture/cinema/avatar-retour-en-coulisses-pour-l-edition-collector_938841.html 2010-11-23 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.
en Naʼvi langauge
fr Artificial languages