ABOUT THIS WEBSITE

This is an unofficial, fan-run; fan-maintained; and fan-financed effort to preserve and make available the contents of the Vulcan Language Institute™ website.  We are also holding the formerly VLI owned domain names vulcanlanguage.com and vulcanlanguage.org, in addition to the new domain name vuhlkansu.shiksha, in custodianship for future use of the VLI, at no cost to the VLI.

From 1998 until 2007, www.vulcanlanguage.com was the original and official domain name of the Vulcan Language Institute™ website, later hosted at vli-online.org and vulcanlanguage.org after the vulcanlanguage.com domain name was lost to hackers.  The Vulcan Language of the Vulcan Language Institute™ concentrates on the language created from the sounds spoken in the Star Trek movies (ie, "introduced in the movies") and painstakingly and devotedly constructed into a real language by Mark R. Gardner and his associates. 

The Vulcan Language Institute™ was founded in 1980 and has been online since 1998.  The VLI has dictionaries, lessons, specialized vocabulary, sample phrases and much more on this website.  The Vulcan Language presented herein is a creation of Mark R. Gardner, website founder and director of the VLI, and his team of associates.

In 2025, after a nearly 20 year wait, the domain name vulcanlanguage.com was finally released by the domain hijacker squatters and the most up-to-date version of the VLI website restored, courtesy of a fan-created backup.  As an aid to students, the complete contents of this website are also available under the Golic Vulcan domain name of vuhlkansu.shiksha.

ABOUT SEARCH ENGINES

Because the content of the website is still written according to 1990's era HTML standards, search engines appear to be reticent to index it or to return search results for it.

We are currently working on updating the site content to contemporary standards and improving overall navigation capability, but in the meantime, site content can be found on the Master Site Directory.

ABOUT THE BOOK


Original cover to The Vulcan Language

The PDF Vulcan Language Book is an earlier attempt (content circa 2004) to preserve the contents of the VLI website.  It was at one time available via print-on-demand via LuLu and Amazon but has been removed from those services. 

Mark Gardner considers the book out of date and it is thus superseded by the latest website content (as an example, the book only contains lessons 1-20, while the website contains lessons 1-34). 

It is included here for historic and artistic reasons.

For a more current PDF option, there is also a 2018 fan-created PDF extract of a portion of the VLI website here.

"I, too, am a Vulcan; bred to peace."  — Spock