Eloi language
Encyclopedia
Eloi language is a constructed language
spoken by Eloi
people in the 2002 movie The Time machine
. For use in the movie it was created by screenwriter
John Logan
. The language is also featured in three songs of the film: "Eloi," "Stone Language," and "Godspeed." In the original novel they spoke a primitive language, and in the 1960 film they spoke English.
s or grammatical tense
s. They keep English alive as an historical language, much like Latin and Sanskrit in modern times.
Constructed language
A planned or constructed language—known colloquially as a conlang—is a language whose phonology, grammar, and/or vocabulary has been consciously devised by an individual or group, instead of having evolved naturally...
spoken by Eloi
Eloi
The Eloi are one of the two post-human races in H. G. Wells' 1895 novel The Time Machine.-In The Time Machine:By the year 802,701 AD, humanity has evolved into two separate species: the Eloi and the Morlocks...
people in the 2002 movie The Time machine
The Time Machine (2002 film)
The Time Machine is a 2002 American science fiction film loosely adapted from the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells, and the 1960 film screenplay by David Duncan...
. For use in the movie it was created by screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
John Logan
John Logan (writer)
John David Logan is an American screenwriter, playwright and film producer.-Personal life:Logan was born in San Diego on September 24, 1961. His parents emigrated to the US from Northern Ireland via Canada. The youngest of three children, he has an older brother and sister...
. The language is also featured in three songs of the film: "Eloi," "Stone Language," and "Godspeed." In the original novel they spoke a primitive language, and in the 1960 film they spoke English.
Language structure
The Eloi language does not appear to be very complex, as Eloi people are primitive. Basic words are short, while longer, more complex words are mostly compounds of shorter words. There is no sign of more complex language features such as grammatical caseGrammatical case
In grammar, the case of a noun or pronoun is an inflectional form that indicates its grammatical function in a phrase, clause, or sentence. For example, a pronoun may play the role of subject , of direct object , or of possessor...
s or grammatical tense
Grammatical tense
A tense is a grammatical category that locates a situation in time, to indicate when the situation takes place.Bernard Comrie, Aspect, 1976:6:...
s. They keep English alive as an historical language, much like Latin and Sanskrit in modern times.