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My name is Larry Rogers, I have worked a lot on deciphering Dr. Marc Okrand's fictional "Atlantean language". I got started on it in 2006 and built on the work of Paul Sherrill, Rebmakash, and others on the Yahoo Groups group "Atlantean Language Group", which has been inactive for some years now.

I have a Facebook group for it:

Atlantis the Lost Empire Atlantean Language by Dr. Marc Okrand https://www.facebook.com/groups/377768309042171/

I have a website on it from about 9 18 2010: http://www.freewebs.com/keran_shadlag/completecorpus.htm

The Wikipedia article is still pretty good. I wrote most of it as "Epigraphist".

I recently started a website encyclopedia of all languages and writing systems, by me. I have a BA in Linguistics from Michigan State University (2009) and study all languages and writing systems, though I specialize in the hardest, "the linguistics of all logographic scripts". I am working on getting my scholarship online and hope to publish a few things. I have labored some 10 years now at this at great personal expense, so I would appreciate respect and encouragement, despite my private choice not to get a PhD in Linguistics or Sinology or what have you. My studies are unique but moreoever time-consuming, and that alone should be sufficient reason for respect regarding my own private choices. It is no light matter at all to study seriously the linguistics of all logographic scripts, though some people who do not do so invariably think that the time I put into it and the insights I have gained thereby are some trite matter. Website Home [ Not allowed by Wikipedia, see the Facebook group for the link. It's Hub Pages, you can actually control what advertisements are on the side, it's not that bad.] Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/1446109112346520/

My Academia.Edu account, as it is: https://independent.academia.edu/logographic155

I also have a small group about famous conlangs from movies, television, and books:

History of Conlangs / Conscripts (Made-up Languages and Writings) https://www.facebook.com/groups/1559372287639844/

You can have some sense of my specialization for the linguistics of all logographic scripts by visiting and making more or less serious queries of me at this Facebook group: Hieroglyphic Writing Systems Linguistics https://www.facebook.com/groups/glyphwhat/

I don't persue my study of the linguistics of all logographic scripts, in particular, as some sort of hobby, despite not being in a graduate program for it. I try my best with what I have to get to the cutting edge. Anybody who wants to join me is welcome to contact me and I can help them gain competence in the discipline. A BA in Linguistics from a well-rounded faculty is recommended (but not absolutely essential). Almost always, the only people who know what they're talking about have the degrees, that's just the world as I know it, and I've talked to a lot of people without BA's in Linguistics.

To promote scholars of the linguistics of logographic scripts, I want to say that it has the potential to make working with any logographic script, including modern Standard Chinese and Standard Japanese, much, much easier, and very significantly easier, than it currently is or has ever been. Scoff if you want, but I'm telling you the truth. If you care for anything like that, if you care for the other logographic scripts or how writings system work or could work in the future, and related phenomena like signed languages, then you should join me or talk with me because I've put a lot into it.