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Re:Inventing a Language, from the Guy Who Made Dothraki (2015) by mihaifm on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @09:42AM (#17549652)
I can give you a really good example of that. The languages created for FarCry Primal are based on Proto-Indo-European [1]. I didn't know that at the time I was playing the game, but the more I played the more I got captivated by those languages, since a lot of words sounded familiar. And indeed after doing the research I discovered that they are based on the real ancestor for Indo-European languages. Congrats to Ubisoft for pulling this off.

[1] https://www.player.one/far-cry-primal-interview-how-ubisoft-...

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Re:Inventing a Language, from the Guy Who Made Dothraki (2015) by jdmichal on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @12:02PM (#17550625)
The movie Prometheus was also somewhat famous in linguistics circles for attempting to use either reconstructed PIE directly or potentially a modified proto-Sanskrit for the Engineer.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4008

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