Klingon Language Institute
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The Klingon Language Institute (KLI) is an organization who helps to teach and learn the Klingon language. Klingon is a language that has been made for the television show Star Trek. In the television show, the Klingons are a fictional (made-up) alien people who do not come from Earth.
The KLI is in Flourtown, Pennsylvania (USA). The organization started in 1992. Four times a year, students of the KLI get a small book called HolQeD (Klingon for language science). Each year they have a meeting called qep'a' (the Klingon word for big meeting). Every student of the KLI can go to this meeting. At the meeting, they can speak and learn the Klingon language.
KLI has made The Klingon Hamlet in February 2000. It is William Shakespeare's play in Klingon. They did this because in the Star Trek movie Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the character Chancellor Gorkon says "You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon" (that means, it must be read in the Klingon to be completely understood and appreciated). The book is in Klingon and in English. Many things are explained in it.
qo’mey poSmoH Hol: language opens worlds - motto of the Klingon Language Institute.
