The focus of this article is to provide a linguistic description of the ‘language of Wakanda’ – a non-existent, fictional language that the makers of the Hollywood science-fiction blockbuster Black Panther represent by using isiXhosa. Our data is collected from the script, subtitles and linguistic performances of isiXhosa by the actors in the film. While cultural and media studies are germane to the discussion, they are not our primary focus, although we provide reference to scholarship on these topics generally, and more specifically to academic commentary on the film Black Panther. As the language of Wakanda has never before been described by linguists, our research objectives are to examine how this language features in the movie in relation to other languages used (a statistical analysis) and also how it is rendered in text by the makers of the subtitles (grammatical and syntactical observations) and by the actors (a phonological analysis).

本文的重点是对“ Wakanda的语言”进行语言描述，Wakanda是一种不存在的虚构语言，好莱坞科幻大片《黑豹》的制作者通过使用isiXhosa来表示。我们的数据是从电影中的演员isiXhosa的剧本，字幕和语言表演中收集的。尽管文化和媒体研究与讨论息息相关，但它们并不是我们的主要重点，尽管我们通常提供有关这些主题的奖学金的参考，更具体地说是针对电影《黑豹》的学术评论。由于Wakanda语言从未被语言学家描述过，因此我们的研究目标是检查电影中该语言与其他使用的语言之间的关系（统计分析），以及电影制作者如何在文本中呈现该语言。字幕（语法和句法观察）和演员（语音分析）。