SciFi Diner Podcast Ep. 131b – Our Interview with Marc Okrand (Creator of the Klingon and Vulcan Language)

About Marc Okrand Marc Okrand is an American linguist and is most notable as the creator of the Klingon language, which he speaks. Okrand worked with Native American languages. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1972. His 1977 doctoral dissertation from the University of California, Berkeley, was on the grammar of Mutsun, a dialect of Ohlone (a.k.a. Southern Costanoan), which is an extinct Utian language formerly spoken in the north central Ca...