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[[File:Britton Watkins.png|thumb]]'''Britton Watkins''' is the Xenolinguistic Consultant working on the creation of the fictional [[StarCitizen:Alien Languages|languages]] for [[StarCitizen:Star Citizen|''Star Citizen'']].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVQ82FjsMTQ Star Citizen: CitizenCon 2949 - Xenolinguistics and You]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b6tWxM_d0o Star Citizen Special Edition: Around the Verse - Alien Languages]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efq71DNVKzg Happy Hour Interview: The Xi'an Language and YOU]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSOETxLuUHo uo'aXy'an Lesson One: Introduction and Greetings]</ref> He is a well-known conlang artist and polyglot.{{fact}}

== Work for CIG ==
He created the [[StarCitizen:Xi'an language]] and the [[StarCitizen:Banu language]] alphabets as well as how they are spoken.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DQepkzjsuM #starcitizen - Chris Harrow - 24h Live Road to Beacon - Replay], Beacon Events, YouTube, 4 may 2023</ref>

== About ==
Originally from a small village in South Carolina, Britton Watkins started with natural languages by Latin, then Spanish. He spent two years in Spain thus becoming fluent, in college he learned a bit of French, and focused on Japanese at the east west center at the university of Hawaii. After university, he spent 5 and a half years in Japan in the 90s. After returning to Japan a second time he learned Thai from a Japanese teacher. He dabbled in the orthography of Tibetan, Sanscrit, Cherokee, Mandarin.<ref>[https://conlangery.com/2014/02/conlangery-97-interview-with-britton-watkins/ Conlangery Podcast #97: Interview with Britton Watkins]</ref>

He has been a fan of science fiction since he was a child, so when he came across the Klingon dictionary in Hawaii he bought it and became very interested in fictional languages, learned how the grammar worked, but he didn't learn Klingon then. He became very intensely interested in conlangs and the emergence of the conlang community online because of the Na'vi and ''Avatar''. He started learning Na'vi 4 or 5 days before ''Avatar'' came out in 2009, already getting involved on https://learnnavi.org/ before even seeing the movie.

He came up with a complete orthography that would represent the phonology of Golic Vulcan based on purely artistic examples of Vulcan writing, He was hired as a dialect coach for ''Star Trek Into Darkness'' to teach the actors the correct pronunciation of their lines.

He made his own documentary on conlangs,<ref>https://conlangingfilm.com/about/</ref> and created several languages including Aklo from the Lovecraftian mythos for ''Whispers of the Shadow.''<ref>Whispers From The Shadows: [https://www.facebook.com/whispersfromtheshadows/photos/britton-watkins-never-one-to-follow-the-normal-path-received-a-ba-in-east-asian-/665771396821038/ Language consultant Britton Watkins (Star Trek Into Darkness) is developing the fictional Aklo language for our series.]</ref> his own language for his own sci fi film called ''Senn''.<ref>[https://fiatlingua.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/fl-000026-00.pdf Siinyamda]</ref>

== External Websites ==
* [http://korsaya.org/ Korsaya]
* [https://conlangingfilm.com/ Conlanging Film]
* [http://sennition.com/ Sennition]

== References ==
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