Is Klingon an official language?

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Can Klingon be used as an actual language in the official language sections within the database?

Example

Languages: English, Spanish, Russian, Hindi, Klingon, Pig Latin!!
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Ed Jones(XLIX)

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No. The language should be based in the real world in my opinion. 
2020-06-17T00:47:31+00:00
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Ed Jones(XLIX)

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That's what I was thinking!!!
2020-06-18T11:05:47+00:00
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IN DAVID JONES LOCKER DUH
2020-06-18T16:00:07+00:00
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Leave my late uncles locker outta this.
3 weeks ago
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Klingon is a selection in the database as an official language.
But Divine is not.
Ancient is not.
Goa'uld is not.
Vulcan s not.
This surprised me. No Pig Latin. It has been used way more than Klingon ever has!

The database thinks it's special and all others are not.
Speak a lot or don't prosper!
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Lol, I have actually seen "Klingon" listed under some Star Trek titles, alongside English.
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2020-06-18T14:02:04+00:00
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By the way, this is the link for Abi's Advance Title Search (ATS):
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,tv_movie,tv_series,video&languages=tlh&...

Klingon and Esperanto and Basic English are three of the most commonly spoken constructed languages. From what I could tell all the remaining languages available via ATS appear to be natural languages.

For comparison, this is the ATS for Esperanto:
Feature Film/TV Movie/TV Series/Video, Esperanto (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,tv_movie,tv_series,video&languages=eo

Bing Microsoft Translator includes Klingon. Google Translate includes Esperanto.
2020-06-18T16:10:27+00:00
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It just occurred to me that one must use both Bing Microsoft Translator and Google Translate to translate Klingon to Esperanto and Esperanto to Klingon.
2 weeks ago
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Hey Ed (and other interested parties) - yes Klingon is an official language. I think it is a bit more legitimate than Goa'uld or Vulcan because the language's creators have released a dictionary for public consumption and Klingon is used outside of Star Trek and related properties in places like Big Bang Theory and Frasier (which is ironic as Kelsey Grammer was in an episode of TNG). Hope this answers your question!

Now if only DC could get their act together and stick to a Kryptonian alphabet...
2020-06-23T23:34:17+00:00
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