A Trip to Memory Alpha!

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Memory Alpha is a planetoid, located in Federation space, on which the Federation's largest library is located. The library is a central repository for the collected scientific, historical, and cultural information from each member planet of the Federation.

Memory Alpha's crew complement varies over time depending on the librarians, researchers and other people serving in the colony.




Memory Alpha is also a great Wiki - http://www.memory-alpha.org
and is a repository of all canonical Star Trek information. Thanks to Steven Boozer reminding me of it last week!

It is of interest in Xenolinguistics because of this article:

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http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Language

Countless different spoken, written, and gestural languages are used by different cultures throughout space. Generally, the universal translator is able to surmount the language barrier between different groups, allowing interstellar society to exist. It is not always successful, however.

Languages

• Axanar
• Bajoran language family
  • Ancient Bajoran
  • Modern Bajoran
• Cardassian
• Denobulan
• Dominionese
• Ferengi
• Giamon
• Haliian
• Human languages
  • English
  • French
  • Greek
  • Latin
  • Russian
  • Sign language
  • Spanish
  • Swahili
  • Swedish
• Iconian language family
  • Dewan
  • Dinasian
  • Iccobar
• Jaradan
• Klingon
• Kobali
• Kreetassan
• Kriosian
• Menk
• Risan
• Romulan
• Stroyerian
• Tamarian
• Tak Tak
• Trill
• Valakian
• Vulcan
• Whale song
• Xindi-Aquatic
• Xindi-Insectoid

See also

• Linguistic database
• Linguacode
• Slang

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