The late Victoria Fromkin may have been to the first linguist to create a language for a television show:
Bowing to what he termed “teacher pressure,” Taritero took the new-language angle a step farther, promoting Pakuni as a potential educational tool. “I decided to commissino a language that would be fun Saturday morning, but then might translate into learning Spanish the following week.” He took this challenge to UCLA, where he was referred to Victoria Fromkin, Ph.D., the head of the university’s department of linguistics. “The idea of creating a language that could be learned by children was an exciting challenge,” remembered Dr. Fromkin, “Not just the old ‘Me Tarzan, You Jane’ sort of thing.”
