Could Wakandan be the new Klingon?
After the success of “Star Trek”, fans clamoured to learn Klingon and now fans of “Black Panther” are doing the same with Wakandan.
A young fan recently took a picture of himself holding up a letter written in Wakandan and sent it to “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman.
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“Dear Black Panther my name is Ben. I am your biggest fan. Could you please write back,” the message apparently says. Really, we just have to take the word of a fan who translated the message in the comments section that it is what the letter says.
Boseman wrote back, sharing the image on his Instagram.
“How cool is it that Hannah Beachler created an incredible alphabet for #BlackPanther and now I’m getting fanmail like this? Thanks for letting me know you’re my biggest fan, Ben. You’re awesome and your letter means a lot to me,” he said.
Beachler won the Academy Award for Best Production Design for her work on “Black Panther”.
She told Indiewire that she used Chinese, Arabic as well as the African tribe languages of Dogon and Murci to create Wakandan.
The language evolved from “the older hieroglyphs into a more modern version using it in a pictography way but the numerical system stayed the same.”
The sequel to “Black Panther” does not yet have a release date but is expected late 2020/early 2021.
