The success of the film Avatar has prompted about 12,000 Aussies to learn the film’s native language, according to reports.
US-based designer of the website www.learnnavi.org, Sebastian Wolff, said that he has vastly underestimated the interest in the 1000 or so listed words.
Having originally expected less than a few hundred visitors, the site is now receiving over 15,000 hits per day, with 70 per cent of them new.
An example of the phrase ‘are you going to the cricket?’ translates to “ma tsmukan, nga kivadia ne agrikragrikagrit?” in Na’vi language.
The site is one of the many crazy spin-off stories spurred on by the movie, after China renamed a mountain after the movie.
Avatar has exceed the global box office record set by the film Titanic, according to estimates by sources at 20th Century Fox, the studio behind the film.