Belter Creole

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Belter Creole, also simply known as Belter (Belter Creole: lang belta), is a constructed language developed by linguist Nick Farmer for The Expanse television series. In the story's universe, it is spoken by Belters, the inhabitants of the asteroid belt and the moons of outer planets of the Solar System. Farmer was commissioned to create the language during the productions of the first season of the show, between 2014 and 2015. He modeled it as a creole based on English, with influence from other languages from around the world, including Romance languages such as Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian, Germanic languages such as German, Dutch and Swedish, Slavic languages such as Polish, Russian and Ukrainian, as well as Japanese, Chinese, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Zulu and others. As a result of his work, Farmer created over 1000 words for his language, adding more to the list if requested by the show's producers and fans.

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