Editing Klingon language (section)

==Speakers==
A small number of people are capable of conversing in Klingon. [[Arika Okrent]] guessed in her 2009 book ''[[In the Land of Invented Languages]]'' that there might be 20–30 fluent speakers.<ref>{{cite book |first=Arika |last=Okrent |title=In the Land of Invented Languages |location=New York |publisher=Spiegel & Grau |year=2010 |page=273 |quote=But what about speakers in the sense of people who can carry on a spontaneous live conversation in Klingon? (...) I would say, oh, twenty or so. Maybe thirty.}}</ref> Its vocabulary, heavily centered on ''Star Trek''–Klingon concepts such as [[Klingon starships|spacecraft]] or [[List of weapons in Star Trek|warfare]], can sometimes make it cumbersome for everyday use. For instance, while words for ''transporter ionizer unit'' (''{{mono |jolvoyʼ}}'') or ''bridge'' (of a ship) (''{{mono |meH}}'') have been known since close to the language's inception, the word for ''bridge'' in the sense of a crossing over water (''{{mono |QI}}'') was unknown until August 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/2012/August/msg00112.html |title=tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Aug 13 15:25:35 2012 |publisher=Kli.org |date=August 13, 2012 |access-date=November 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180208210903/http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/2012/August/msg00112.html |archive-date=February 8, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Nonetheless, mundane conversations are possible among skilled speakers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.earthlings-movie.com/ |title=Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water |publisher=Mostly Water LLC |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615082547/http://www.earthlings-movie.com/ |archive-date=June 15, 2011 |access-date=November 23, 2018}}</ref>

One Klingon speaker, d'Armond Speers of the [[Klingon Language Institute]], raised his son Alec to speak Klingon as a first language, while the boy's mother communicated with him in English.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dean |first=Eddie |url=https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/13011269/klingon-as-a-second-language |title=Klingon as a Second Language |newspaper=Washington City Paper |date=August 9, 1996 |access-date=November 23, 2018 |archive-date=September 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905103056/https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/13011269/klingon-as-a-second-language |url-status=live }}</ref> Alec rarely responded to his father in Klingon, although when he did, his pronunciation was "excellent". After Alec's fifth birthday, Speers reported that his son eventually stopped responding to him when spoken to in Klingon as he clearly did not enjoy it, so Speers switched to English.<ref name="Fry's">{{cite episode |title=Babel |date=September 25, 2011 |series=Fry's Planet Word |network=[[BBC]] TV}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/1999/08/babble-on-revisited/ |title=Babble On Revisited |website=Wired.com |issue=8 |date=August 1, 1999 |volume=7 |access-date=November 23, 2018 |archive-date=November 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124105804/https://www.wired.com/1999/08/babble-on-revisited/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2007, a report surfaced that [[Multnomah County, Oregon]], was hiring Klingon translators for its mental health program in case patients came into a psychiatric hospital speaking nothing but Klingon.<ref name="Klingonsnopes">{{cite web |title=Klingon Interpreter |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/klingon-interpreter/ |website=Snopes.com |date=28 March 2003 |access-date=November 23, 2018 |archive-date=3 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303161116/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/klingon-interpreter/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Most circulations of the report seemingly implied that this was a problem that health officials faced before; however, the original report indicated that this was just a precaution for a hypothetical and that said translator would only be paid on an as needed basis.<ref name=Klingonsnopes/> After the report was misinterpreted, the County issued another release noting that releasing the original report was a "mistake".<ref name=Klingonsnopes/>

In May 2009, [[Simon & Schuster]], in collaboration with [[Ultralingua]] Inc., a developer of electronic dictionary applications, announced the release of a suite of electronic Klingon language software for most computer platforms including a dictionary, a phrasebook, and an audio learning tool.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ultralingua engaged by Simon & Schuster for launch of Star Trek-related iPhone Apps |date=May 9, 2009 |url=https://www.ultralingua.com/sites/ultralingua.com/files/pdfs/PR.Klingon-5.9.09.pdf |access-date=November 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011144408/https://www.ultralingua.com/sites/ultralingua.com/files/pdfs/PR.Klingon-5.9.09.pdf |archive-date=October 11, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In September 2011, [[Eurotalk]] released the "Learn Klingon" course in its ''Talk Now!'' series. The language is displayed in both Latin and pIqaD fonts, making this the first language course written in pIqaD and approved by CBS and [[Marc Okrand]]. It was translated by Jonathan Brown and Okrand and uses the {{mono |Hol-pIqaD}} [[TrueType]] font.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-15122597|title= 'Klingon' helps Milton Keynes man deal with dyslexia|author= |date= October 2, 2011|publisher= BBC|accessdate=June 15, 2024}}</ref>

In August 2016, a company in the United Kingdom, Bidvine, began offering Klingon lessons as one of their services.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bidvine.com/klingon-lessons |title=We make it easy to hire a Klingon Tutor |publisher=Bidvine |access-date=November 23, 2018 |archive-date=November 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124105925/https://www.bidvine.com/klingon-lessons |url-status=live }}</ref>

In March 2018, the popular language learning site [[Duolingo]] opened a beta course in Klingon. After proving popular, the company offered to promote it from beta status, but due to ongoing software issues regarding Klingon's unexpected use of upper- and lower-case letters and the apostrophe as a consonant instead of punctuation, the course developers chose not to accept the offer until the problems were addressed.<ref name="Duolingo">{{cite web |url=https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/26588778/Duolingo%E2%80%99s-Klingon-Course-is-now-available |title=Duolingo's Klingon Course is now available! |website=Duolingo.com |date=March 15, 2018 |access-date=November 23, 2018 |archive-date=January 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122184737/https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/26588778/Duolingo%E2%80%99s-Klingon-Course-is-now-available |url-status=live }}</ref>

There are Klingon language meetings<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.speakklingon.info |title={<code>tlhIngan Hol yejHaD qepʼaʼ</code> &#124; Information about the 2013 Conference of the Klingon Language Institute |date=2013-03-13 |publisher=Speakklingon.info |access-date=2013-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214040542/http://www.speakklingon.info/ |archive-date=2013-12-14 |url-status=usurped }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.qephom.de/e/nextqephom.html |title=qep Hom: Meeting |publisher=qepHom.de |access-date=November 23, 2018 |archive-date=November 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124162237/http://www.qephom.de/e/nextqephom.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and linguists or students are interested in researching this topic, even writing essays about the language or its users.

Klingon speakers are also referred to in non-''Star Trek'' TV series, including ''[[Frasier]]'', ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', and [[Lucifer (TV series)|''Lucifer'']], and were heavily featured in the "[[My Big Fat Geek Wedding]]" episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]''. In the 2017 film ''[[Please Stand By]]'', in which a young autistic woman played by [[Dakota Fanning]] leaves her group home in [[San Francisco]] to deliver a ''Star Trek'' screenplay she wrote to [[Paramount Pictures]], a [[Los Angeles Police Department|Los Angeles police officer]] played by [[Patton Oswalt]] coaxes her out of hiding by speaking with her in Klingon.