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According to ''Entertainment Weekly'', "The Na'vi can commune with animals on their planet by literally plugging their braid into the creatures' nerve systems. To become a warrior, a Na'vi must tame and ride a flying creature known as Ikran."<ref name="ew091218" /> The Na'vi also use this neural bonding system, called "tsaheylu", to [[mating|mate]] with a "life partner", a bond that, when made, cannot be broken in the Na'vi's lifetime. This is akin to human marriage.<ref name="tg100104">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/6931166/Avatar-fans-promised-alien-sex-scene-on-DVD.html |title=Avatar fans promised alien sex scene on DVD |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |author=Staff |date=January 4, 2010 |access-date=January 7, 2010 |archive-date=January 6, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106084425/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/6931166/Avatar-fans-promised-alien-sex-scene-on-DVD.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
The Na'vi way of life revolves around their religion, and the Home Tree. The Na'vi sleep in hammocks in large groups for comfort and as a warning system.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mckeown |first=Matt |date=
Conceived for the film was the [[Na'vi language]], a [[constructed language]] often spoken by the actors when they played Na'vi characters. The Na'vi language was created by communications professor emeritus and linguistics consultant [[Paul Frommer]] of the [[University of Southern California]]. He designed the language so as to be speakable by human actors, combining syntactic and grammatical rules from other existing languages. Frommer created over a thousand words for the Na'vi language and coached the actors who narrated Na'vi characters.<ref name=uso>{{Cite web |url=http://usoproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/interview-with-paul-frommer-alien.html |title=An interview with Paul Frommer, Alien Language Creator for Avatar |work=Unidentified Sound Object |first=Matteo |last=Milani |date=November 24, 2009 |access-date=October 15, 2010 |archive-date=January 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100104111614/http://usoproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/interview-with-paul-frommer-alien.html |url-status=live }}</ref> When communicating to humans in the film, Na'vi characters – especially Neytiri – speak in accented and [[Non-native pronunciations of English|broken English]].
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