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===In fictional works=== [[Image:Tengwar alphabet1.svg|thumb|The Tengwar script constructed for Tolkien's languages. He also created a mode for English.]] [[Image:Kli piqad.GIF|thumb|The KLI pIqaD is a constructed script for [[Klingon language|Klingon]]]] The best-known constructed scripts dedicated to [[fictional language]]s are [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s elaborate [[Tengwar]] and [[Cirth]], but many others exist, such as the [[Klingon scripts|pIqaD]] script for ''[[Star Trek]]'''s [[Klingon language]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kli.org/about-klingon/writing-klingon|title=Writing Klingon β Klingon Language Institute}}</ref> and [[D'ni language|D'ni]] from the ''[[Myst]]'' series of video games.<ref name="Pearce">{{cite journal | last = Pearce | first = Celia | title = Productive Play: Game Culture From the Bottom Up | journal = [[Games and Culture]] | year = 2006 | volume = 1 | issue = 17 | doi = 10.1177/1555412005281418 | page = 17| s2cid = 16084255 }}</ref> Other works stop short of creating entire languages, and instead use constructed scripts as [[substitution cipher]]s or alternate orthographies for existing languages- English-language examples include the script of the Orokin language (referred to by members of the community as "Tennobet", a portmanteau of "[[Warframe#Setting|Tenno]]" and "alphabet") from the video game ''[[Warframe]]'', the unnamed New World script from ''[[Kirby and the Forgotten Land]]'', [[Aurebesh]] from ''[[Star Wars]]'',<ref name="TechTimes">{{cite web|url=http://www.techtimes.com/articles/111268/20151127/google-translate-s-star-wars-easter-egg-adds-support-aurebesh.htm|title=Google Translate's 'Star Wars' Easter Egg Adds Support For Aurebesh|date=November 27, 2015|publisher=Tech Times|last1=McKalin|first1=Vamien|access-date=July 26, 2016}}</ref> and the [[Futurama#Languages|alien writing]] appearing in the television series ''[[Futurama]]''.
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