Okrand
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Okrand (plural Okrands)
A surname.
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When initially developed, Paramount Pictures (owners of the Star Trek franchise ) wanted the Klingon language to be guttural and harsh and Okrand wanted it to be unusual, so he selected sounds that combined in ways not generally found in other languages.
Described in the 1985 book The Klingon Dictionary by Marc Okrand and deliberately designed to sound "alien", it has a number of typologically uncommon features.
Okrand himself has stated that a design principle of the Klingon language was dissimilarity to existing natural languages in general, and English in particular.
However, Klingon as described on television is often not entirely congruous with the Klingon developed by Okrand.
Klingon was subsequently developed by Okrand into a full-fledged language.