In 1980, linguist Mark Gardner was inspired by the spoken Vulcan that he heard in Star Trek: The Motion Picture to create a real, spoken Vulcan language, that would incorporate all of the Vulcan terms and sounds that had been used in the Star Trek television show and movies up to that point; yet also be a true and functional language; not just a collection of random unrelated terms, as previous fan efforts had been.
This was a years-long effort, and in 1998, he put it online on the then-brand-new “World Wide Web”, on his website, “The Vulcan Language Institute.”
He had different terms for different varieties of his language, and over the years, his “Golic Vulcan” (named after the “Plains of Gol” from the first movie) became the
His site includes the musing, “maybe some day, this language might actually become popular enough that we’ll be able to speak it to each other at conventions.”
His dream has come true.
The Vulcan Language Institute is still online at vulcanlanguage.com, its original domain name since 1998. The website hasn’t been updated in a while and looks like an old clunker at this point. I find the navigation to be – let us say – challenging – but they state they are working on updating it.