Meaning of Atlantean | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An inhabitant of the mythical island of Atlantis.
2. The language supposedly spoken by the inhabitants of Atlantis.
3. A pillar or statue in the form of an architectural atlas.
4. A constructed language invented for the 2001 animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

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Examples

“1847, M. Bodichon, Études sur l'Algérie, translated in Nott & Gliddon, 1854, Types of mankind, The Atlanteans, among the ancients, passed for the favorite children of Neptune; they made known the worship⟳ of this god to other nations”

“This pyramid has been restored and the tall statues, called Atlanteans (Los Atlantes), have⟳ been erected on its summit.”

“How Atlantean sounded or how the various alphabets worked is anyone's guess⟳, of course, but since there is a certain logic to how language is constructed, we might allow⟳ that theirs may not have⟳ been so different from our own⟳.”

“Indeed, Okrand's goal in inventing Atlantean was to recreate Indo-European, and it thus borrows from several languages yet contains no recognizable words from these linguistic systems.”

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