146. It is hoped that a decision by Warner Brothers will be made to release a Man of Steel Kryptonian primer. Russian | Is it true that humans can communicate with all other planets, and they do not speak English? They are eventually rescued and restored to normal size by Superman and Supergirl, who were sent to Earth in rockets as in other versions of the story. They also started So by clicking on these links you can help to support this site. The abilities of Kryptonians evolve and grow more powerful as Kryptonians age and develop. Since Supermans death, there have been numerous speculation about what will happen in the DC Universe. The two symbols found in the story of Kryptonian are glyphs and syllabic writing systems. There's currently an estimated 7,100 different languages spoken on Earth. Sub-Zero confronts Superman, while Supergirl faces General Zod, and Batman battles Ursa and Non. A subreddit dedicated to the unofficial Kryptonian language project whose goal is the creation of a spoken and written Kryptonian language. In the future, the citizens of Krypton are humans. The entire cast of Superman 1 and 2 had British accents, including Jor-El and Lara, the council of judges, Zod and Ursa, as well as Superman 1. Dr. Schreyer teamed up with graphic designer Kirsten Franson who designed the look of the writing. What will happen now that Superman is dead? The stories also use "Kryptonian" as an adjective to refer to anything created by or associated with the planet itself or the cultures that existed on it. 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; If you like this site and find it useful, you can support it by making a donation via PayPal or Patreon, or by contributing in other ways. Yeah I'd think there would be a need for it, can't always go digital. Kryptonian is a little like Japanese, with both an older system of symbols or glyphs akin to kanji, as well as a syllabic writing system similar to hiragana and katakana. Barsoomian is the constructed language of the fictional wise inhabitants of Mars. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. A more complex version of Persian | In the first stories about Superman's origins, all Kryptonians possess on their homeworld the same powers Superman has on Earth. Batman confronts the grieving Supergirl and reveals that Superman was once his friend. It was worshiped by the Kryptonians as a deity (albeit in a more scientific and rational way as the giver and sustainer of all life on the planet). There is also a pantheon of 14 major dieties, 203 demigods, and over 1000 titans. I put the file here if you want to listen. The Man of Steel. This time, it was dipped into and removed from the container. How will the other members of the Justice League cope with the loss of their leader? Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Sometimes it is to supplement existing material and to provide a richer environment to draw from. In the Super Friends Kandor appears inside Superman's Fortress of Solitude in one episode and several of its miniaturized (yet still super-powered) inhabitants provide aid to the titular group of heroes. Just like humans domesticating their animals on Earth, Kryptonians also domesticate their own animals as well; which some of them look very similar to Earth's animals, due to parallel evolution, e.g., birds, felids, canids, simians, etc., as seen in Krypto, and Beppo; while others look very different, due to divergent evolution, e.g., fish/snake/eel-like hybrid creatures called "fish-snakes", goat-like creatures called "Zuurt", bovine-like creatures called "Rondor", rhino/ceratopsian-like hybrid creatures called "Thought-Beasts", and dragon-like creatures called "H'Raka". Shes also always been interested in Indigenous peoples, and completed a directed study on the Cree language during her undergraduate studies at the University of Winnipeg. Even if we accept convergent evolution as the birth of another humanoid species, the idea that a superman would look like a white-haired, handsome guy is preposterous. The different castes lived in buildings with different architectural styles that represented various styles throughout Krypton's history. http://www.supermanhomepage.com/comics/comics.php?topic=comics-kryptonian_alphabet A bit of notoriety is a welcomed perk of Schreyers job, but the true goal is research that is applicable to existing communities. On the planet Krypton, whose parent star has often been depicted as an ancient red supergiant with a relatively low energy output, their natural abilities were the same as humans. After being separated from Earth by a culture that evolved completely outside of them, they speak perfect English but dont speak in a language theyve never heard of. six loraxo (Kryptonian months) per amzet (Kryptonian year). Pre-Crisis we had actual "Kryptonian", which had its own syntax, pronunciation, it was an actual stand-alone language. The 2021 television series Superman & Lois featured characters speaking the Doyle version of Kryptonian in the season 1 episodes Man of Steel, Loyal Subjekts, and O Mother, Where Art Thou?. At least, as close any of us will ever get. Kara In-Zee, alias Supergirl, is the lone survivor of Argos, Krypton's sister planet knocked out by the planet's explosion; however, in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Fearful Symmetry", Doctor Emil Hamilton, who has examined Superman, calls her DNA "Kryptonian", indicating that Argosians are genetically related to Kryptonians. For example, Kryptonian includes a voiced glottal fricative, or what a voiced h would sound like to English speakers, which Dr. Schreyer added to a list of existing phonetic rules to make the language more alien sounding. This is a sound English speakers are capable of producing, but is not found in any words in the English language. She has already managed to translate quite a few words and phrases. 1 I wonder if the correspondence would have been the same in Red Son. The term originated from the stories of DC Comics superhero, Superman. So a literal translation would render the word: ZIuSod. Also, in both Silver Age and Modern Age continuity, Kryptonians have more than one ethnic group, such as dark-skinned Kryptonians from Krypton's Vathlo Island that resemble Earth humans of Sub-Saharan African, Negrito, Melanesian, and Indigenous Australian descent reminiscent of Earth peoples of the Negroid, Capoid, and Australoid races and a group from the continent of Twenx that resemble Earth humans of North African, Middle Eastern, Asian, Micronesian, Polynesian, Native American, and Latino descent reminiscent of Earth peoples of the non-European Caucasoid and Mongoloid races. As in the comics, Kal-El's powers are depicted as being superior to other Kryptonians, due to his spending a far greater period of time exposed to Earth's yellow sun and atmosphere, though some have an advantage over him in terms of combat experience (e.g. Adaptations of existing alphabets | It's best they learn the 2nd most used language here. As a result, I must be imaginative when referring to the fictional world of Kryptonian. Both Superman and Supergirl converse in spoken Kryptonian (the movie used a mix of esperanto and gibberish). After Kandor is rescued from Brainiac, attempts are made to re-enlarge the city and its people, but it is unconfirmed whether they succeed. Colour-based scripts | In her office, Schreyer has only one memento a framed Batman v Superman promotional cereal box that featured Kryptonian syllabic writing to remind her of her work on Man of Steel. Kryptonian or Kryptonese is language or the fictional planet Kryptonian culture and its language (well, its writing, at least) have appeared in many different forms and places over the 75 years of Superman's history. In the 1970s, E. Nelson Bridwell attempted to rationalize these squiggles into a 118-letter alphabet, referring to the language as "Kryptonese". Fictional race native to the planet Krypton. In Season Six, Clark discovers his father's assistant Raya was spared by being placed in the Phantom Zone, with her body intact. His name alone is remembered of the council of Jax-Ur. I know it so much that I was recognizing some of the typos in the books from a few months back. Batman and Supergirl manage to infiltrate the ship, but Supergirl is captured, though Batman discovers that Superman is still alive and the two join forces to defeat Brainiac and free Supergirl. 100 thribo (Kryptonian seconds) per dendar (Kryptonian minute). 1950s-1985): This page was last edited on 15 February 2023, at 21:28. Considering that the creative team behind MOS came up with an actual Kryptonian language, I think the idea is for audiences to suspend their belief and imagine that, amongst themselves, the. They Zack Snyder actually commissioned the creation of an artificial language for the Kryptonians in Man of Steel that we barely even see on screen. Season Seven introduces Kara Zor-El, having been sent to Earth at the same time of Clark but trapped in suspended animation since then; later, through schemes put into practice before his death, Clark's uncle Zor-El and mother Lara are resurrected with powers intact for a time. A multi-dimensional defeat. They are also vulnerable to physical attacks from beings native to Krypton essentially in proportion to their vulnerability in non-powered situations. Christine Schreyer, who spent years teaching courses on constructed languages such as Star Treks Klingon and Avatars Navi, is one of the first to create her own. There is a mixing of ideographic and alphabetic characters in the writing of the characters of the Kryptonian race. This results in her death which triggers a nuclear explosion that destroys Metropolis. Korean | However, Superman's ally, Black Adam, finds Kara's ship and brings her to Earth. According to one story, in which the Phantom Zone prisoner Quex-Ul had served his full sentence, 18 Kryptonian sun-cycles (amzeto) is about 25 Earth years. Constructed scripts for constructed languages | The letters used to represent a pronunciation are referred to as pronounced words. The child was attached to Clark's ship in the form of a cocoon; on Earth it assumed a human form and became known as Davis Bloome, but would periodically assume its true form: the monster Doomsday. Kryptonian In 2000 DC Comics introduced a transliteration alphabet containing symbols for each of the letters of the English alphabet. 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; The light of dwarf stars, pulsars, and quasars also grants Kryptonians different abilities. I mean Honestly sometimes I believe writers have lost a lot of creative capacity. Superman and Supergirl work together to attack Brainiac's ship, but are stopped by its barrier. var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; The show's final season reveals that Zor-El (who was unable to be at Argo City during Krypton's destruction) also survived by sending himself to the Phantom Zone as his planet was destroyed. The Religious, Artist, Military and Science castes had representation on the ruling council, while the Worker caste did not. El mayarah is a blessing. In other versions of canon, there is a last daughter of Krypton Kara Zor-El. For Clark, it's even his native language, no so much for Kara. English | While the alphabet is used to write the majority of the language, the ideograph is largely used to represent its bound morphology (e.g., verb tenses, particles, and adpositions). While the other Kryptonians receive great strength and speed from Earth's sun, they require solar-suits to regulate the radiation and avoid being stricken by pain. The Light has Klarion hunt down all the Kryptonians in the zone and has the dozens of them in stasis aboard The Warworld with Apokolips acquiring Kara Zor-El as a member of their army. With the aid of the Justice League from another universe, the Regime is defeated and the Insurgency works to rebuild. Kryptonese automatically gets points because it's the only writing system on this list that's a syllabary, not an alphabet.