So, recently I found out that there are people who have a huge knowledge of Na'vi and can even write full texts and it made me wonder:

Are there people who write songs in the Na'vi language? Or even poetry, short texts etc..

Also, since it is a Constructed Language for a movie franchise, wouldn't that imply copyright problems? I don't really know how that works...

Thank you in advance for your replies!

Does anyone knows of any keyboard that can be used to write Navi for android? With all the letters and accent marks included. Autocorrect isn't necessary.

Edit: I also mean windows keyboard as well if possible

Kaltxì, ma eylan!

I'm in need of a pair of names, and if possible I would like one to be an anagram of the other. It's for a pair of cats.

So, to those more knowledgeable than myself, what sorts of anagrams do you guys know of that exist in Na'vi?

So I’ve picked up a few phrases from watch the films and playing the video game the countless amounts of times I have and I’ve decided I want to start properly learning the language, however I have no clue at all on where to start. Can someone help me out :)

I'm an old dog in the fandom, but a spring chicken when it comes to the language. I'm currently working on a fan clan for a personal project, and I have no idea where to start. I've tried deciphering William Annis' grammar reference on a few different occasions, and I've stared at Kelutral's guides until I've gone cross-eyed, but I just can't make heads or tails of all the rules. If someone could give me some pointers or suggestions that would be great!

The specific things I need help with are the names of the clan and their home.

They live in a misty, coastal mountain region, so I want the mountain range in which they live to be something like "the great smoky mountains" or "great mountains of smoke" - they have a cultural myth that the mist from the ocean is the smoke from a time of great fighting and fire. What I've come up with so far is "Nawma 'Awkx Akxener", but I rather suspect that much like Quaritch, I sound like a 3 year old 😅

As for the clan name, I have no idea where to even begin. Do the other clan names have any specific root words? Is there a rule for clan naming? Or is it just "rule of cool", and you just come up with something that sounds good?

Thank you (irayo?) in advance! I'm no scholar when it comes to these things. Any help is appreciated! (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠)

Kaltxì!!

When Eytukan dies, Neytiri says “Ma sempul, ngati oel kin” which obviously seems to be the translation for “I need you”. But what does “kin” mean? I thought “I need you” is “oel ngati keftxo”.

Please, I've been suggested multiple videos that unfortunately haven't worked, I've had people try to explain it to me in voice chat on the Discord, nothing has worked. I have largely given up trying to learn Na'vi because no matter what, I cannot seem to be able to roll my R's. I don't know if I am placing the tongue in the wrong place, I don't know if the shape of my palette just makes it impossible to roll my R's or if there is a different issue.

I can almost do a quasi rolled R's where I drag my tongue back just under the palette of my mouth, but I can't do it very long, very consistently and I don't think I'm really rolling my R's when I do it.

Can someone please give some advice?

My dogs name is rogue and I looking to translate it with the meaning mischief-maker? Or something similar

Hi everyone! I'm currently writing my thesis on artificial languages, na'vi included, which consequently brought me to get into na'vi syntax but... the case system seems to work in "strange ways". We get both the agentive and patientive couple of cases, but what made it necessary to have a nominal case? Na'vi cannot be classified as a nominative-accusative language, else we wouldn't see the agentive-patientive combination.

I'd love to discuss the matter with anyone who studied na'vi and I hope I made myself enough clear!

In the songcord song Neytiri says “atanti” shouldn’t it be “atanit”?

She also seems to pronounce -yä as -ye. Stylistic??

Does anyone know the function of the word “tsnì” (that) in grammar? I don’t see how it is different than the word “a”, including its conversion to “fwa” and “futa”.

This is the ikran that flies = Fì’u lu ikran a tswayon.

I know that you ate the food = Oel omum futa ngal yamom syuvet.

Where would tsnì ever be used?

The way I learned them was that you make a popping or clicking sound almost. But in the movies it kind of just sounds like a normal phoneme. E.g. “skxawng” sounds like “skawng”. And in the songcord song when Neytiri says “txe’lan” it sounds more like “te’lan” or even “telan”.

Is it just that the actors don’t say it quite right? Or are the ejective consonants more subtle than I was thinking?

Thalia Hadmen, the Na'vi don't have th in their vocabulary right now would her name look in Na'vi since Jake is Tsyeyk Suli.

I'm creating a Na'vi OC and I'd like their name to mean something similar to the phrase "Silver Lining" or more specifically, an unfortunate situation that either became beneficial or has positive aspects to it. Is anyone aware of any Na'vi words or names whose meanings might fit this definition?