Nevertheless, the young idealist, who also owned a language and IT school, quickly became a pariah and was banned from leaving the kingdom in 2009.
Klingon may have been invented for a movie, but it is an actual language now, and the question becomes abstract: Can you own a language?
Mr. Azad, who owns one of the country's biggest garment factories, also owns a Bengali-language newspaper and a television station.
He owned a Russian-language radio station, where he was often on the air — "It was a type of Larry King show," he said — and a Russian-language magazine.
It has an identity of its own, a language, a culture.
Hindemith has developed a very special language of his own, a language that is contemporary in the best sense of the word but in its attempt to provide harmonic logic uses what you might call a substitute tonality".
In the novel, Haroun writes that his literary task is to "take one by one the stones of the old homes of the colonists and make of them a home of my own, a language to myself".
Even during the years when I struggled with this question of writing in a language that was not my own, or a language that once had not been my own, a language, in other words, I had to make mine, I never worried about it when I wrote.
"This creature has its own language -- a language with sentences, paragraphs and all kinds of punctuation.
"Every rock type has its own musicality, a language," he says.
