The Universal Translator: Everything you need to know about 139 languages that don’t really exist

By Yens Wahlgren

If you think about it, all languages are made up - some are just more open about it than others.

In The Universal Translator, Yens Wahlgren heads up an expedition through time, space and multiple universes to explore the words that have built worlds. From the classic constructed languages of Star Trek and Tolkien to (literally) Orwellian Newspeak and pop-culture sensations such as Game of Thrones, The Witcher and The Mandalorian, this is your portal to over a hundred realms and lexicons – and perhaps the starting point to creating your own.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The History Press
• Release date: Feb 2, 2021
• ISBN: 9780750995924

Yens Wahlgren

Yens Wahlgren is a xenosociolinguist, communicator and writer. He works at Lund University and previously worked as a journalist. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Klingon, and his thesis 'Klingon as Linguistic Capital' is a standard text for its speakers and in the study of the alien language. Wahlgren lives in Sweden and has a lifelong interest artificial languages in literature and in popular culture.