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| Gallo1801 Diglot Senior Member Spain Joined 4906 days ago 164 posts - 248 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), Croatian, German, French | Message 1 of 8 31 May 2013 at 5:51am | IP Logged |
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So I recently was hooked on GoT (Game of Thrones) and for you lucky few that have yet to
be swallowed up in the series, there are two conlangs in the series: Dothraki, an Arabesque tongue spoken by the horsemen tribe of the desert, and Valyerian which is used as a Sanskrit/Latin. The "Common Tongue" is conveniently English. I was just wondering if any of you all on HTAL had started to study either of them, or have plans to. I know Klingon and Elvish are two popular conlangs from literature and film that people learn and while I don't personally have an interest in learning them myself, I would love to more know about their constructed etymologies, phonetics, etc. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ReQuest Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5036 days ago 200 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 8 31 May 2013 at 6:36am | IP Logged |
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Valar Morghulis ! I really like the series myself, and I'm
almost done reading the books, but learning such a language? No you won't see me doing that, though High Valyrian sounds great. In the books though, these languages aren't at all represented except for the occasional word here and there.These languages are actually a sole creature of the HBO series. It's not at all like in LOTR where the writer created the language. Still I could see people learning these, maybe solely to feed their Daenerys fetish ;p. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4257 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 8 03 June 2013 at 9:44pm | IP Logged |
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Valeryian I assume is "valyrian".
But yes, as the previous poster noted, the languages aren't from the pen of mr. Martin but someone HBO hired to make the languages for them. This doesn't make me really want to learn them, especially when they are not in any sort of important role. Edited by Henkkles on 03 June 2013 at 9:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| freakyaye Senior Member Australia Joined 4842 days ago 107 posts - 152 votes | Message 4 of 8 04 June 2013 at 3:21pm | IP Logged |
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The guy (whom made these conlangs) also made the ones for defiance too. his name is david
peterson and he gave a ted talk recently. His site is: http://dedalvs.conlang.org/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5232 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 5 of 8 04 June 2013 at 4:01pm | IP Logged |
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Yeah, the Lord of the Rings was essentially an etymology for Quenya and Sindarin. The Game of Thrones conlangs are, on the contrary, quite insignificant. I do love the books, and the show, but I've no desire to learn languages whose only purpose would be to understand (already subtitled) the occasional conversation on the TV show.
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| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4655 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 6 of 8 08 June 2013 at 9:12am | IP Logged |
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I thought only the Dothraki was somehow done. Where can I find the Valyrian?
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| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5232 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 7 of 8 10 June 2013 at 9:53pm | IP Logged |
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David Petersen, the creator of both conlangs, has a blog where he talks about updates of his creation.
http://www.dothraki.com/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Swift Senior Member Ireland Joined 4612 days ago 137 posts - 191 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Russian | Message 8 of 8 10 June 2013 at 10:09pm | IP Logged |
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Like others have pointed out, the languages are a creation of the show. I much prefer the
books to the show, so the languages don't really interest me that much. I would learn them eventually if it was the other way around though, because I am really obsessed with the books. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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