Lunar, George
Description
This handy dictionary will ease the learning process for students of the Belter language. Within this dictionary I've gathered bits and pieces of the
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language previously scattered across the internet. This is the first collection of its kind.
Fictional History As its English name suggests, Belter Creole is a creole language. During humanity's expansion into the solar system, people from many different parts of Earth or Mars often lived and worked together, and they developed a pidgin language to communicate with one another. Over time this developed into a full-fledged creole language, which became the lingua franca, a common tongue, of the Belt and the outer planets.
The Belter name for the language itself is Lang Belta.
As a creole language, Lang Belta is primarily derived from English, with influences and contributions from languages of many different families, such as Germanic, Chinese, Romance, Indic, Slavic, and Niger-Congo.[3] Many of its words were derived from words or phrases in one or more of these languages.
Lang Belta was created for The Expanse by Nick Farmer, a linguist, after he met Ty Franck.
After the TV show began airing, Daniel Abraham recommended that aspiring students of Belter focus on the version portrayed in the show, as opposed to what he and Franck had written about in the books.
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