What is the Na’vi language based on?

”Paul Frommer is a linguistics expert at USC, and we hired him to create a language,” James Cameron says. ”He riffed off the 30 or so character names, place names, and creature names that I had come up with. They had a little bit of a Polynesian/Maori influence because of some time I had spent in New Zealand and in other places throughout Polynesia. So he used some Polynesian roots — but there’s also some African, there’s Native American, there’s even some bits from the Latin languages — and then he mixed it all up with German sentence construction, where the verb comes last. From an acting standpoint, the hard part was speaking English with a Na’vi accent. Zoë Saldana had the most lines, so we let her create the accent, and then everybody had to match her.”

source: http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0„20336893_3,00.html

Its pretty interesting that they made a language for a film. Wikipedia claims to have the whole thing down on one page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na’vi_language

more info:

http://boxwish.com/UK/profiles/blogs/the-na-vi-language-from-avatar-explained

nutters.