Belter Creole
Belter Creole, also simply known as Belter (Belter Creole: lang belta), is a constructed language developed by the linguist and polyglot Nick Farmer for The Expanse television series. In the universe, it was spoken by Belters, inhabitants of the asteroid belt and the moons of outer planets of the Solar System.
| Belter Creole | |
|---|---|
| lang belta | |
| Created by | Nick Farmer |
| Setting and usage | The Expanse |
| Purpose | |
Writing system | Latin script |
| Sources | English and other world languages |
| Official status | |
| Regulated by | Nick Farmer |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | qbc (local use) |
| Glottolog | None |
| IETF | art-x-belter (local use) |
Farmer was commissioned to create the language during the productions of the first season of the show, between 2014 and 2015. While developing the language, he had modeled it as a creole based on English, with influence of other languages from all around the world, including Romance languages such as Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian, Germanic languages such as German, Dutch and Swedish, Slavic languages such as Polish, Russian and Ukrainian, as well as Japanese, Chinese, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Zulu and others. As the result of his work, Farmer had created over 1000 words for his language, adding more to the list if requested by the show's producers and fans.