The only one who spoke was Huston's character and, considering that some of the words he used sound eerily like a european languange(in particular, his saying 'commencé' right before the fight with Eben ), I'd say that it likely evolved, or more precisely, devolved from his original language(my guess...either french or italian) because of him purposely staying away from the more dense centers of civilization which would have kept him "in practice"; also, the fact that a lot of the lesser vampires were far more feral than he meant he'd likely have to dumb his speech patterns down for them to understand anyway. Give these two reasons decades of being practiced and you'd get a pretty close approximation of the language we heard in the movie. Also, he obviously understood English to a degree going by his "God....no god" speech and being familiar with one romantic language usually means a semi-understanding of others since they all stem from latin(thus there are several shared or similar root words).
I'm sorry. If you were right, I'd agree with you. -Dr. Malcolm Sayer("Awakenings")
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actionmanrandell
12 years ago
the vampires in the 30 days of nights comics all speak english. they have there own society and speak there own language. they have queen
also the language in the film was completely made up
and based around click consonants
this is what they said
"we designed this really simple language that didn't sound like any particular accent that you would be aware of, that was based around really simple actions, eating, hunting, yes, no, really basic, because that's what vampires do."
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