Vulcan Languages Known About
Mark R. Gardner 
Tue, 14 Jul 1998 09:32:29 -0700

To answer Rob's question about other Vulcan Languages known about:


1.  The Japanese-looking language from April Publications that came
out     in a pamphlet in 1977.  The earliest fan-created Vulcan I have
seen,     although rumors have it that one of the first "I Grok Spock"
clubs      issued a "Traveler's Guide to Vulcan" in the early 1970's.  I
have      never seen or found any information on it.

2.  A Vulcan Language dictionary of 500 words from circa 1979 that
I        heard of at my first Star Trek convention.  It was from a guy
in        Israel but I have not heard or seen anything on it since. 
Since        Leonard Nimoy is Jewish, it is possible he may know
something about     this but I have never thought to ask him about it.

3.  The Vulcan Language Institute's "Old High Vulcan" which began to
be     formulated in 1980 and was in its current form by 1989.  Words
have     been added from later movies, books and TV.

4.  The Diane Duane ancient Vulcan (which looks a lot like Romulan)
from     before the Romulan-Vulcan split, from Spock's World, 1988.

5.  The Zvelebil Vulcan language (ZC), now known as "Modern
Vulcan",        which I don't know a date of origin for. 

6.  "Fthinrakathi Vulcan" -- an ancient Vulcan language from
several        centuries before Surak, yet more recent than Diane
Duane's.  Begun      in 1972 by the late Dale Murphy, who I met shortly
before his death     in 1984.  I helped him with the grammar and pointed
out some things     that did not agree.  He invented it for a novel set
on Vulcan that      was never published.  He left his work to me.  I
have cleaned it up     and it will appear on our site as an historical
artifact (it came       from the same language root that our Old High
Vulcan did, although      it is not the direct ancestor of it).

7.  A Russian fan-created Vulcan that I saw a few words of in 1995
when     I first got really active on the Internet and was exploring
for         hours at a time.  I found a site that was based in
Krasnoyarsk, I       believe, and it was a Star Trek site!  Saw a page
with "Yazyk           Vulkana" (Vulcan Language) and some words that
were not like any I'd     seen before.  When I tried to return to the
site again, it came up      "File Not Found On Server" and I've never
seen it since.

If anyone knows of any other Vulcan language efforts, let's post them. 
I am going to have this information on our site when it opens soon.  I
just opened an Internet account to host the Vulcan Language Institute
site, so it is not so far in the future now. 

Dif-tor heh smusma!

Mark R. Gardner
Vulcan Language Institute