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Note that while some writers [[ShownTheirWork go to great lengths]] in trying to make the languages they come up with seem as natural and realistic in terms of grammar and syntax as possible, this rarely affects the script. While Earth's writing can be allocated to five categories (''Alphabets'' with distinctive letters representing both vowels and consonants such as Greek, Latin, Korean, or Cyrillic; ''Syllabaries'' which are similar to alphabets except each letter represents a syllable such as Japanese and Cherokee; ''Abugidas'' which are similar to syllabaries except letters are formed from a base shape and modified according to what vowel comes after it such as Hindi; ''Abjads'' which limit themselves only to consonants such as Arabic or Hebrew; and ''Logographies'' featuring thousands of characters representing particular concepts rather than sounds such as Chinese or Old Egyptian), you'll be hard-pressed to find non-alphabets being used in any world of fiction. Often, it's a result of WriteWhatYouKnow (or should that be Make What You Are Familiar With?), but it can also be a result of easiness or practicality: for alphabets you only need to make a glyph for every sound you have which should be quite small (less than 40), while a syllabary for example would require you to make a glyph for every syllable you have, which for any language that even remotely allows consonant clusters means you're looking at a few hundred glyphs. Even the fictional people who speak your conlang would find a few-hundred-glyph syllabary too much and simplify it.

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* Duolingo now offers lessons in how to speak High Valyrian, Esperanto, and Klingon.

!!! Authors who worked on multiple conglangs:

* ''Ride/LostIslandThemePark'' in Iowa has Aukipi, the language of the residents of Auk Modu, which also comes with a corresponding script. Primarily serving as a means of adding an extra layer of encryption to Aukipi script messages scattered around the park, a translation key and a limited glossary was printed in the back of the park's picture book "Sneaky Tamariki" and some other merchandise features proverbs from the different [[ElementalNation Elemental Nations]] presented in romanized Aukipi and English. A more detailed "Aukipi Dictionary" was released for the 2023 season.

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' (and [[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium various other works set in the same world]]) is the TropeCodifier. Creator/JRRTolkien was a language professor at Oxford -- he [[ShownTheirWork knew his stuff]]. His grand dream since his childhood was to create a language. He then realized languages didn't exist in a vacuum - they require people that speak it and a culture in which it developed. As a result, he created a world full of languages, language families, and dialects ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Middle-earth#List_of_languages just read through them.]]) with an internal history, along with several scripts and modes in which they could be written. Although most of them are not actually fully detailed languages, several are more detailed than others, and at least the Elven languages Quenya (influenced by Finnish) and Sindarin (based off Welsh) are complete enough to be learned and spoken. Indeed, the (Elvish) languages came first, and the setting in which they could be spoken came after. The attempts by fan scholars and creators of adaptations to extrapolate from and expand the existing material are usually referred to as ''Neo-(insert language name)''. Tolkien's languages are not just [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign shoehorned mutilations of existing languages]], but very much their own living languages with unique grammar, orthography, phonemes, pronunciation, and rules. Tolkien's academic paper [[http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/vice.htm "A Secret Vice"]] was one of the first serious studies of constructed languages as an art form in itself, focusing mostly on his own work and youthful experiments with language. He coined the term ''glossopoeia'' to describe creating languages for artistic purposes.

* ''Film/{{Arrival}}'' featured a constructed language with a vocabulary of about a hundred words; written in circular patterns that [[StarfishAliens resemble complex coffee stains rather than any human script]].

* ''Lost Island Theme Park'' in Iowa has Aukipi, the language of the Tamariki guardian spirits, which also comes with a corresponding script. Primarily serving as a means of adding an extra layer of encryption to Aukipi script messages scattered around the park, a translation key and a limited glossary was printed in the back of the park's picture book "Sneaky Tamariki" and some other merchandise features proverbs from the different [[ElementalNation Elemental Nations]] presented in romanized Aukipi and English. A more detailed "Aukipi Dictionary" was released for the 2023 season.

* The ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'' series features the Inkling language, though other species such as the Octolings also have their own languages. Unlike other Creator/{{Nintendo}} series, it cannot be reliably translated; WordOfGod says that it's almost completely random, though some of the written scripts can be deciphered. In addition, there are also the occasional instances of actual English appearing in the game, such as the [=MakoMart=] stage in ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' having a cereal box with the word "choco" on it amongst its shelves or the entirety of Ruins of Ark Polaris, which the game strongly hints [[spoiler: was a failed attempt by humans [[TheArk to leave Earth during the apocalypse]], with the aftermath being left to decay in the ocean for millennia.]]

** For ''WesternAnimation/{{Elemental}}'' he created the Firish language spoken by Ember's family.

* ''VideoGame/StarFox'' introduced the Dino language (also called Saurian) in ''Star Fox Adventures'' which is used on Dinosaur Planet (Sauria in ''Star Fox Asssault''). Like Al Bhed in ''Final Fantasy X'', it is a cipher language. More info here: [[http://saurian.krystalarchive.com/ Saurian Translator]]

* ''Lost Island Theme Park'' in Iowa has Aukipi, the language of the Tamariki guardian spirits, which also comes with a corresponding script. Primarily serving as a means of adding an extra layer of encryption to Aukipi script messages scattered around the park, a translation key and a limited glossary was printed in the back of the park's picture book "Sneaky Tamariki" and some other merchandise features proverbs from the different [[ElementalNation Elemental Nations]] presented in romanized Aukipi and English.

It's just as ungrounded to expect every "ancient" language to be much more complex than any that is to be found in the modern world. While it's partly true that isolation might contribute to a language retaining its original form largely intact (such as is the case with Icelandic), some of the areas in which extremely archaic languages are spoken (most notably the Baltic ones) have been anything but isolated throughout the last centuries. And even though the general trend does seem to be towards simplification of a language over a period of time, it's important to note that most studies on this focus on the Indo-European languages, which all defend from a language called, well, Proto-Indo-European, which is a very grammatically complex language already. So it's hard to imagine any culture would go with even more complexity.

* In ''Literature/TheEnemyPapers'', two main characters learning the other's language is a major theme, so the readers learn some Dracon along with the protagonist. The language is also used in a couple other stories set in the same cinematic universe.

* Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' (and [[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium various other works set in the same world]]) is the TropeCodifier. The guy was a language professor at Oxford -- he [[ShownTheirWork knew his stuff]]. His grand dream since his childhood was to create a language. He then realized languages didn't exist in a vacuum - they require people that speak it and a culture in which it developed. As a result, he created a world full of languages, language families, and dialects ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Middle-earth#List_of_languages just read through them.]]) with an internal history, along with several scripts and modes in which they could be written. Although most of them are not actually fully detailed languages, several are more detailed than others, and at least the Elven languages Quenya (influenced by Finnish) and Sindarin (based off Welsh) are complete enough to be learned and spoken. Indeed, the (Elvish) languages came first, and the setting in which they could be spoken came after. The attempts by fan scholars and creators of adaptations to extrapolate from and expand the existing material are usually referred to as ''Neo-(insert language name)''. Tolkien's languages are not just [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign shoehorned mutilations of existing languages]], but very much their own living languages with unique grammar, orthography, phonemes, pronunciation, and rules. Tolkien's academic paper [[http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/vice.htm "A Secret Vice"]] was one of the first serious studies of constructed languages as an art form in itself, focusing mostly on his own work and youthful experiments with language. He coined the term ''glossopoeia'' to describe creating languages for artistic purposes.

* ''Literature/{{Phenomena}}'' has one called milescript that is sorta described which at first sounds like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Futhark runes]] but are different. It seems to have rules similar to Japanese with some being like kanji and another script being hiragana to assist it. The lack of better describing can be explained by that it was supposed to be a {{Picture Book|s}} series but the publisher wanted it to seem more "mature" (probably because it'd be cheaper to print). There are also many other languages like Aldran, Dragon language, and many more, and scripts but [[Creator/RunenEliassen Eliassen]] seems to have given up on constructing them.

* Diane Duane created partial languages for the Vulcans and the "Literature/{{Rihannsu}}" (Romulans) in her ''Franchise/StarTrek'' novels, most of the words of which are given only approximate translations. There was supposed to be a dictionary to go with the ''Literature/{{Rihannsu}}'' series, along the lines of Marc Okrand's ''The Klingon Dictionary'', but it died in DevelopmentHell. The fans, however, took the groundwork laid in-series and [[http://rihannsu.org ran with it]]. In-story, the Rihannsu language was originally a direct translation conlang. When the first Rihannsu left Vulcan, they invented a new language -- with very different phonemes, but near-identical grammar, to make it easier to learn -- and started using it immediately, all in an effort to distance themselves from the planet they were leaving. They went back to Old High Vulcan and took it in a different direction, a bit like making up your own Romance language by fiddling with Latin.

* ''Literature/WatershipDown'' gave us the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapine_language Lapine;]] a language for the rabbits.

** The ''Literature/{{Earthsea}}'' series has Hardic, which we see a little of. And Kargish, Osskili and [[LanguageOfMagic Old Speech]], in which wizards cast spells. Not that the author is above a pun--the word for stone in [[LanguageOfMagic Old Speech]] is ''tolk'' and that for sea is ''inien'', making ''Earthsea'' translate as... Tolkienian!

* Creator/MCAHogarth is fond of creating languages for her various series, one of the most developed is the [[http://mcah.wikia.com/wiki/Ai-Naidar#Language Ai-Naidar]] language from the ''Literature/{{Kherishdar}}'' series. In the ''Literature/{{Paradox}}'' series most Pelted languages were invented in-cinematic universe by the [[{{Omniglot}} linguistically talented]] Seersa.

** The language of the Drow in has been given a fairly extensive vocabulary and sophisticated gramma in books such as 3.5E's ''Drow of the Underdark''. Several in-cinematic universe proverbs exist which illustrate the character of the drow, such as, "All trust is foolish."

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia'' has Relares, an ideographic language that works by conjugating a set of core base ideas into nouns, verbs, and adjectives/adverbs. In-cinematic universe, it's the traditional language of the Ferines, though its modern in-cinematic universe usage is primarily for naming, important declarations, and records of major historical events. It's also used in the game's soundtrack. Relares is notable in that the other functional languages invented for the ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'' are fairly simple [[CypherLanguage cipher languages]] based on English.

* Franchise/TheDCU has not one, but three alphabet ciphers that translate to one of 26 Roman Alphabet Letters: [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Kryptonian]], [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Interlac]], and [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Venusian]]. It's explicitly stated that English sounds different than Kryptonian (which has been hinted as vaguely Swedish sounding), which sounds different from Interlac, despite having the same amount of symbols to depict those sounds, and that each symbol matches a Roman symbol as well. Makes some sense in Interlac's case, since it could be descended from our alphabet. Some of the symbols might've been repurposed for new sounds, too; after all, the modern Greek vowel letters were consonants in Phoenician. They have one non-cipher language: the language of the Indigo Lanterns. Anyway, there's an [[http://www.supermanhomepage.com/comics/comics.php?topic=comics-kryptonian_alphabet official Kryptonian alphabet]] and an [[http://www.kryptonian.info/ unofficial Kryptonian language page]]. You can also find the old [[http://www.marvelfamily.com/potpourri/MindCode/ Venusian Mind Worm]] language online.

* Franchise/TheDCU has not one, but three alphabet ciphers that translate to one of 26 Roman Alphabet Letters: [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Kryptonian]], [[Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Interlac]], and [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Venusian]]. It's explicitly stated that English sounds different than Kryptonian (which has been hinted as vaguely Swedish sounding), which sounds different from Interlac, despite having the same amount of symbols to depict those sounds, and that each symbol matches a Roman symbol as well. Makes some sense in Interlac's case, since it could be descended from our alphabet. Some of the symbols might've been repurposed for new sounds, too; after all, the modern Greek vowel letters were consonants in Phoenician. They have one non-cipher language: the language of the Indigo Lanterns. Anyway there's an [[http://www.supermanhomepage.com/comics/comics.php?topic=comics-kryptonian_alphabet official Kryptonian alphabet]] and an [[http://www.kryptonian.info/ unofficial Kryptonian language page]]. You can also find the old [[http://www.marvelfamily.com/potpourri/MindCode/ Venusian Mind Worm]] language online.

* Krakoan, from [[ComicBook/HouseAndPowersOfX House of X]].
* ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' writer Steve Orlando stated -as he discussed his ''Comicbook/SupergirlRebirth'' book- that he created Kryptonian grammar in the book, from scratch.
-->"If you want to translate Kryptonian, it's not just English with Kryptonian characters. There are rules here."

* ''[[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]'' does this with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak Newspeak,]] which is not a new language but a [[{{Newspeak}} degrading hypersymplification of English]]. Bonus points because an exact guide for the simplification is given.

* ''Literature/{{Anathem}}'' has [[http://monastic.org/orth Orth.]]

* In Creator/SamuelRDelany's ''Literature/Babel17'', Babel-17 itself is an ''in-cinematic universe'' example. It is a language specifically constructed to take advantage of the LanguageEqualsThought trope. Learning Babel-17 has significant effects on the way you think. When Wong first starts to learn the language, she finds it makes certain kinds of strategy puzzles much easier to solve. Later, she also finds it has some additional [[EnemyWithin not-so-pleasant]] effects.
* Will Self's novel ''Literature/TheBookOfDave'' introduces a far future where the common language Mokni (a phoneticised cockney initially quite tricky to read) is peppered with bastardised London cabbie slang since their religious book is the rantings of a present day taxi driver.

* ''Literature/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'' has the language of Ente Isla, a fantasy world.
* The Franchise/CthulhuMythos fandom gives us [[http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Rlyehian R'yehian]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aklo Aklo.]]
* The water voles who appear in Creator/RobinJarvis' ''[[Literature/DeptfordMice Deptford Mouselets]]'' book ''Whortle's Hope'' have their own language. They refer to the titular character as a "rimpi-too" as that is their word for "field mouse".

* Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin knows her stuff:
** The ''Literature/{{Earthsea}}'' series has Hardic, which we see a little of. And Kargish, Osskili and [[LanguageOfMagic Old Speech]], in which wizards cast spells. Not that the author is above a pun--the word for stone in [[LanguageOfMagic Old Speech]] is ''tolk'' and that for sea is ''inien'', making ''Earthsea'' translate as... Tolkienian!
** The language of Kesh in ''Literature/AlwaysComingHome'' has a considerable vocabulary given. The expanded edition also adds the syntax rules.

* In Barry B. Longyear's ''Enemy Mine'', two main characters learning the other's language is a major theme - so the readers learn some Dracon along with the protagonist. The language is also used in a couple other stories set in the same cinematic universe.

* Joanne Greenberg's ''I Never Promised You A Rose Garden'' has Yri, the sacred language of Deborah Blau's Kingdom of Yr. It is a secret language, and there is a cover-language based on Latin, a facade for the real thing. To speak regular Yri all the time would be "like powering a firefly with lightning bolts." Deborah actually thinks in Yri and sometimes has difficulty remembering English. It is rich in metaphor and has morphemes to indicate levels of intensity. This language got started because as she entered adolescence, Deborah had begun to have thoughts and experiences that there seemed to be no English words to describe. One word can suffice to explain all the emotions and memories of a single significant day in her life. A doctor who pinch hits for Deborah's regular psychiatrist attempts to dissect Yri as a mishmosh of French, German and Latin. The book is autobiographical, and there actually was such a doctor during Joanne Greenberg's hospital stay; she dismissed Joanne's language (actually called Irian) as bastardized Armenian. [[note]]In the documentary ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPfKc-TknWU Take These Broken Wings]]'', about treating schizophrenia with ordinary psychotherapy and minimal or no medication, Joanne confirmed the language was real, and she still knows words of it. Case notes revealed by Gerald Schoenewolf show that she created it as a child to shield her poetry from her extremely intrusive father. It even had its own writing system, resembling Chinese ideographs.[[/note]]

* ''Literature/{{Phenomena}}'': has one called milescript that is sorta described which at first sounds like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Futhark runes]] but are different. It seems to have rules similar to Japanese with some being like kanji and another script being hiragana to assist it. The lack of better describing can be explained by that it was supposed to be a {{Picture Book|s}} series but the publisher wanted it to seem more "mature" (probably because it'd be cheaper to print). There are also many other languages like Aldran, Dragon language, and many more, and scripts but [[Creator/RunenEliassen Eliassen]] seems to have given up on constructing them.

* ''[[Literature/RedMoonRisingHolt Red Moon Rising]]'': The Kihuut language.
* ''Literature/TheSecretLivesOfPrincesses'': The International Alphabet of Fans.
* Basic in ''Literature/SpaceCadet''. It's definitely not English, because a psychiatrist offers to speak to the protagonist (who is from North America) in English instead of Basic. It's primarily descended from Russian, as Russian populations survived an apocalyptic event in the distant past, with smatterings of Chinese, and, amusingly, loanwords from English-language internet culture. The punctuation is based on emojis.
* Creator/CSLewis's ''Literature/TheSpaceTrilogy'' gives us Old Solar, the interplanetary language spoken throughout the Solar System, which is completely constructed from scratch. There are two reason why it no longer exists on Earth ([[CallARabbitASmeerp Thulcandra]]): firstly, because Thulcandra is [[HumansAreBastards "bent"]], i.e., corrupt and cut off from [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Maleldil]], and secondly, because of [[Literature/BookOfGenesis the Tower of Babel]].

* Ricardo Pinto's ''Literature/TheStoneDanceOfTheChameleon'' has Quya. The opening poem is written out in both Quya and English. There is also a system of glyphs to write Quya in and the name of every chapter is written out in both English and Quya glyphs. Sometimes attention is drawn in the story to a peculiarity of the language -- which completely passes the readers by. Hear the author speak it [[http://www.ricardopinto.com/work/stone_dance/topics/song_to_the_earth/index.php here]].
* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand'' has Martian, which is presented as an essential tool to unlock spiritual potential in humans. The characters spend most of the novel learning the language and, eventually, writing a full dictionary. Interestingly enough, it works almost ''exactly'' the same as Orwell's Newspeak (abolishing the need for synonyms), but would lead to a utopian society, instead of a dystopian one.
* Tad Williams' novel ''Literature/TailchasersSong'' has each animal having its own native tongue, though some animals can learn each others tongues. The book comes with a glossary at the back to help readers understand the terminology. For example, "fela" means "female [cat]" and comes from "Fela Skydancer", the first female cat created by Meerclar Allmother.
* ''Literature/{{Tarzan}}'' gives us [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangani Mangani]].
* Creator/CherryWilder's Literature/{{Torin}} stories include occasional words and phrases (and, at one point, an entire verse of a song translated from English) in the Moruian language, which is developed in sufficient depth for it to have its own puns.

* C.J. Cherryh:

** The ''Literature/AllianceUnion'' cinematic universe has the hani, kif, mahen, and stsho languages.

* ''Literature/HuntersMoon1989'' sprinkles about fox terminology suchas ''rangfar'' (a vagabound fox) into its text.

* [[Creator/SidAndMartyKrofftProductions Sid and Marty Krofft]] hired a Ph.D. linguist to create a language for the proto-human Pakuni in ''Series/LandOfTheLost'', with a grammar, syntax, and two hundred word vocabulary. The full language is included as an extra on the Season One DVD.

** For ''[[Series/{{The100}} The 100]]'' he came up with the Grounder language, Trigedasleng, which is English that drifted over three generations under pressure from enemies. The Grounders can still communicate with the standard-English-speaking Ark arrivals and Mountain Men, however.

* ''Series/Supergirl2015'': Starting in season 3, Kryptonian characters occasionally speak [[http://kryptonian.info/ "Doyle Kryptonian,"]] which is a fan ConLang attempting to create a reasonable language out of all the scraps and hints from decades of ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' media. The show's grammar and pronunciation is a bit hit-or-miss, though.

-->''"I was given instruction on what preexisting fragments were to be considered as canon. I incorporated all of those. Essentially, those really only yielded limited phonotactic information, some vague lexical items, and a hand-full of possible grammatical morphemes. There was also some Vulcan canon, which was useful, in a historical linguistic sense, to further flesh out phonotactics, and to derive another small set of lexical items. Native Romulan orthography fragments, used in prior canon production, were aesthetically pleasing, but were clearly just a thinly disguised version of the Roman alphabet. So, I used only the visual aesthetic from that, and created a system fitting to the actual phonotactics and phonemic inventory of the Romulan language. ST:Picard, E2 recently featured a decent sampling in a scene. The rest (the majority of the language) I had to construct."''

* The book series on which ''Series/TheExpanse'' is based, has a melting-pot language derived from several source languages, and adds hand gestures. In the TV series, Belters (residents of the asteroids) communicate in their language but can code-switch relatively effortlessly between that and English.
* In ''Series/{{Inhumans}}'' a few signs were created for Black Bolt's Inhuman sign language, but his actor, Creator/AnsonMount, took it ''much'' farther, creating hundreds of signs, nearly a functional language. It was carefully made so that ''none'' of it duplicates ASL or any other real-world sign language.
* Franchise/KamenRider:

** For ''Series/Halo2022'' he worked with Carl Buck to create Sangheili, the language of the Covenant.

-->"I was given instruction on what preexisting fragments were to be considered as canon. I incorporated all of those. Essentially, those really only yielded limited phonotactic information, some vague lexical items, and a hand-full of possible grammatical morphemes. There was also some Vulcan canon, which was useful, in a historical linguistic sense, to further flesh out phonotactics, and to derive another small set of lexical items. Native Romulan orthography fragments, used in prior canon production, were aesthetically pleasing, but were clearly just a thinly disguised version of the Roman alphabet. So, I used only the visual aesthetic from that, and created a system fitting to the actual phonotactics and phonemic inventory of the Romulan language. ST:Picard, E2 recently featured a decent sampling in a scene. The rest (the majority of the language) I had to construct."
** In-universe: Thaddeus Riker, elder son of Will Riker and Deanna Troi-Riker, constructed a fantasy language and was well on his way to become a 24th/25th century JRR Tolkien before [[spoiler:a rare silicon-based virus took his life.]] His younger sister Kestra keeps the language alive, and it was learned by Soji as well [[spoiler:in mere minutes because she's a Soong-type android.]]
* ''Series/{{Supergirl 2015}}'': Starting in season 3, Kryptonian characters occasionally speak [[http://kryptonian.info/ "Doyle Kryptonian,"]] which is a fan ConLang attempting to create a reasonable language out of all the scraps and hints from decades of ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' media. The show's grammar and pronunciation is a bit hit-or-miss, though.

* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime'': In the "3000 years ago" scene in episode 8 the characters seem to speak the Old Tongue Jordan invented for the Age of Legends.
* In ''Series/TheMandalorian'' and ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'', the Tusken Raiders use a sign language. A hearing person on the team who knew sign language mentioned that a deaf person should consulted. That person became Creator/TroyKotsur. He developed the language, and he also played the lead Tusken Raider.
-->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QQvRhdJsyA Troy Kotsur]]:''' So I was helping consult on the show. And later on, he didn't realize that I was an actor myself, because I didn't want to say, "Hey, by the way, I'm an actor." You know, it would just sound like I was brown-nosing. I really wanted to focus on the sign language. But my manager let them know, and said, "Hey, by the way, Troy is also an actor. Why doesn't he play a Tuscan Raider?"