See how much of the below you know, and pick up a selection in preparation for winter 2014’s Season 5 of Tymptir dēmalȳti (High Valyrian for Game of Thrones, or Game of ‘official sitting place’) or Vilajerosh (Dothraki for Game of Thrones, or ‘little battle’ of ‘chairs’).Īn archaic-sounding adaptation of ‘turncoat’, a treacherous person who deserts one cause in order to join an opposing one.Ī giant wolf, named after a real-world wolf that has been extinct for around 10,000 years. So, how familiar with the show’s vocabulary and each of its many conlangs are Game of Thrones followers? The languages of Game of Thrones all derive from fragments mentioned in the books, although to grow them Peterson took influences from Turkish, Russian, Estonian, Inuktitut and Swahili, and worked with other constraints determined by television producers, mainly that the languages be easily pronounceable and learnable. To gain this position, he initially delivered 1,700 Dothraki words to producers, and the vocabulary of the language now stands at around 4,000 words. Peterson, conlanger (creator of conlangs, or constructed languages) and co-founder of the Language Creation Society, was chosen from thirty others to work as Game of Thrones’ dedicated conlanger. Peterson developed the languages for the TV series. Martin created the basic concepts of High Valyrian and its descendant languages, linguist David J.

However, had you only ever read the novels in the series A Song of Ice and Fire, then your vocabulary would be much smaller: while author George R.

Fans of the HBO TV series Game of Thrones will be well acquainted with its unique vocabulary and the various terms of the Valyrian, Braavosi and Dothraki languages.

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