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“Predator: Badlands” is the first film in the franchise where much of the dialogue is in the alien hunters’ language.

Director Dan Trachtenberg wanted to make sure the Yautja and their culture felt authentic in the film.

Linguist Britton Watkins developed the framework for both the spoken and written Yautja language.

When asked how much of the alien language used by the franchise’s central hunter species he is able to speak, “Predator: Badlands” director Dan Trachtenberg quickly answers “zero.”

“My mouth will not even permit me to utter [even] a phonic from it,” Trachtenberg says of the language created for his film, praising his actors for learning it. Linguist Britton Watkins

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