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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