I always wanted to know how such language were created. Human talents are amazing, for David Peterson, creating a language is like painting, or designing a machine.
As soon as I heard Dothraki I thought it sounded like Arabic. As an Arabic speaker I thought it was awesome but unfortunately some people arent happy about this for stupid reasons.
+big bad wolf: well, obviously, it's intended as a Stand-in for Latin, and to me, frankly, it fucking shows. only other difference seems to be switching inevitable lead poisoning for a monochrome Hulk trip.
Despite being a stand-in for Latin, I wouldn't doubt it if there was some bleed-in from Arabic. So far as I understand it, Arabic is one of his favorite languages and part of what started him on the path to making his own.
I speak Arabic as well, but Dothraki doesn't sound like Arabic to me. I think if the actors pronounced the Q as an Arabi Qaaf, it might. High Valyrian sounds Slavic to me like Russian or Ukrainian. And I've noticed that most speakers of High Valyrian are not pronouncing the Y as a French Y or a German U-umlaut, which they should.
This interview was very interesting....thank you. Getting an interview from someone who works off camera/behind the scenes is a nice switch up from speaking with the actors. Always love learning about the different jobs that indirectly affect the development of film/tv. Who would have thought making up a language would be so complex. I have heard that studying Linguistics is not what one might think it would be.
Not only is this guy a master at creating languages - he's really good at getting normal people excited about conlangs, and all around a great communicator. He's just as charismatic when speaking to more technical audiences on the finer details of conlanging. His talks at Google are worth checking out, which you can find on RUclips if you're interested. In one of them he relates an anecdote from the set of one of his shows, so he does get invited on-set at least some of the time.
Duolingo app. It has valyrian and you can learn for free. It makes it easy and fun I enjoy it very much. Add me and I can Help you if you need. Olivia King
McDucky Conlanging is way easier to become good at than most things. And I conlang. Sure when most start out they tend to make bad languages. But it's no where near the amount of work to learn guitar, or program. Creating a language is far easier than learning one.
One thing shows now do better than books, is to expand and create languages, with phonetics, alphabet and all. That´s cool, and an improvement for fantasy readers.
+Abaddi Fahad I think he was talking about the Dothraki word, not the Arabic word xP. He was just giving it as an example of a word that aesthetically sounds like Arabic.
Amm...the exageration was on purpose right?When he said that there's about 1million words in the english language... . There's about 170 thousand words in the english language..not even close to a million.
His book on language creation goes more deeply into this statistic - it turns out these "number of words in the language" figures depend a lot on what exactly counts as a separate word. "Cat" vs "cats", "paint" vs "painter"...
I love how people like Tolkien created fictional languages that sound legit since they took inspiration from real life languages of both the past and today, while JK Rowling’s languages(whatever she did) unfortunately sounded more like cooky and made-up child-like gibberish.
Renato Medeiros obviously it depends on your native language, alot of European languages such as Finnish, Hungarian and russian have very hard grammar but for learning to read write and speak middle eastern and far eastern languages tend to be the hardest. It's all relative to what goal you have.
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I always wanted to know how such language were created. Human talents are amazing, for David Peterson, creating a language is like painting, or designing a machine.
Yes, exactly. But David Peterson is hardly the only conlanger. There are many others.
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Always thought Grey Worm rocked High Valyrian, glad to have it confirmed. He's awesome.
hee prah He's also a musical artist, check out Raleigh Ritchie. Awesome shit. "Bloodsport" is one of my favorite songs of all time :)
@@SomeNiceMovies do you mean David Preston is a musical artist
@@cherylbaxter8986 no, the person who plays Grey Wprm, Raleigh Ritchie, is a musical artist
This guy is extremely intelligent and well spoken. It makes him so easy to listen to. Freaking hell creating languages! Just amazing...
I want a video of him just speaking both languages. I'm mesmerized listening to him. So beautiful
This guy is a legend
superb interview. Could easily have watched this for another hour
this dude is my new hero
As soon as I heard Dothraki I thought it sounded like Arabic. As an Arabic speaker I thought it was awesome but unfortunately some people arent happy about this for stupid reasons.
+Kingly Fiber How does Valyrian sound to you?
+big bad wolf: well, obviously, it's intended as a Stand-in for Latin, and to me, frankly, it fucking shows.
only other difference seems to be switching inevitable lead poisoning for a monochrome Hulk trip.
Despite being a stand-in for Latin, I wouldn't doubt it if there was some bleed-in from Arabic. So far as I understand it, Arabic is one of his favorite languages and part of what started him on the path to making his own.
I speak Arabic as well, but Dothraki doesn't sound like Arabic to me. I think if the actors pronounced the Q as an Arabi Qaaf, it might. High Valyrian sounds Slavic to me like Russian or Ukrainian. And I've noticed that most speakers of High Valyrian are not pronouncing the Y as a French Y or a German U-umlaut, which they should.
They use ana for I hahaha
I have never seen an interview being seated in the 'IRON THRONE'! Wonderful. I am not sure even the cast have done this for an interview.
This interview was very interesting....thank you. Getting an interview from someone who works off camera/behind the scenes is a nice switch up from speaking with the actors. Always love learning about the different jobs that indirectly affect the development of film/tv.
Who would have thought making up a language would be so complex. I have heard that studying Linguistics is not what one might think it would be.
He also created the Trigedasleng language for The CW show The 100.
Yesssss
Wow. I love that show. He's dope.
Valyrian sounds like it would be easier to learn than Dothraki. At least for me.
No. Valyrian has more noun cases than dothraki, 4 genres, 6 declensions.
+Luis Gonzales it still sounds like it would be easier to learn FOR ME.
+Luis Gonzales Easier to pronounce though
+Luis Gonzales Morphology isn't the only thing that can make a language difficult xP.
valyrian seems very Latin-y
Not only is this guy a master at creating languages - he's really good at getting normal people excited about conlangs, and all around a great communicator. He's just as charismatic when speaking to more technical audiences on the finer details of conlanging. His talks at Google are worth checking out, which you can find on RUclips if you're interested. In one of them he relates an anecdote from the set of one of his shows, so he does get invited on-set at least some of the time.
It's weird seeing him get interviewed by non-linguist type people
For anyone who liked this I recommend David's Google talk, "David Peterson Google" here on youtube should do it!
Is there gonna be a Valyrian Book for learning ?????
that. would. be. fucking awesooooooooooome
Simon Dellin There's gonna be a Duolingo course for it. It's in the incubator now.
Check out Duolingo, it's released now (no audio yet, though).
You look like Brienne of Tarth
Duolingo app. It has valyrian and you can learn for free. It makes it easy and fun I enjoy it very much. Add me and I can Help you if you need.
Olivia King
Best thronecast interview to date
What an interesting interview
Yeah nice one presenters, make jokes about Jeremy Beadle that your American guest has no chance of understanding. Masterful interview technique
Creating a language isn't hard, it just takes time, knowledge and a goal.
This applies to everything...
McDucky Conlanging is way easier to become good at than most things. And I conlang. Sure when most start out they tend to make bad languages. But it's no where near the amount of work to learn guitar, or program. Creating a language is far easier than learning one.
This dude is great.
Trying to learn High V. off Duo Lingo right now
I just can't believe they made him sit on the iron throne xd
What is the low valyrian for elderberries?
I doubt that they grow in Astapor....
He always mentions his cats xD
I speak Arabic and English something in the middle with warm accent a new born language will set free my imagination ..I want to do it
I watch game of thrones because David made the languages. Anyone else?
that's the only reason i watch the show, now im learning high valyrian while waiting for the next season
I have always wanted to create a language from existing languages.
That's what English is, kinda. Real mongrel.
Valirian reminded me of Greek a d Dorthraki Turkish ...does it have roots in these languages
One thing shows now do better than books, is to expand and create languages, with phonetics, alphabet and all. That´s cool, and an improvement for fantasy readers.
Is that the original Iron Throne movie set that you are sitting in?
This mas is a phenomenon ! but the word for man in arabic is rajol or rajjal I don't know why he said meharaj !
+Abaddi Fahad He wasn't talking about Arabic but about Dothraki in which the word for ''Man'' is ''Mahrazh''
+Abaddi Fahad I think he was talking about the Dothraki word, not the Arabic word xP. He was just giving it as an example of a word that aesthetically sounds like Arabic.
George martin is no tolkein. But im glad they have this guy on board. They should change the jibberish in the books.
It's not a jibberish, it's called a "name language" :)
Jibberish is what they used in the old films of "The Star Wars".
You're missing out on the Croatian food David hehe
هااشم من السعودية
Whats up with his thumps? o.o
9:11
ولدكم يحب اللغة العربية
he talks so much about canon, shame the show is it’s own separate story
Amm...the exageration was on purpose right?When he said that there's about 1million words in the english language... . There's about 170 thousand words in the english language..not even close to a million.
170,000 in use. But there are about 1 million actual words. Some aren't common anymore though
His book on language creation goes more deeply into this statistic - it turns out these "number of words in the language" figures depend a lot on what exactly counts as a separate word. "Cat" vs "cats", "paint" vs "painter"...
I love how people like Tolkien created fictional languages that sound legit since they took inspiration from real life languages of both the past and today, while JK Rowling’s languages(whatever she did) unfortunately sounded more like cooky and made-up child-like gibberish.
David Peterson... Pete Davidson
trigedasleng is superior
hi
I challenge him to learn Portuguese one of the most annoying and difficult languages in the world.
Hehe difficult ? Try Polish or Tibetan ... you'll change mind :DD
Portuguese is probably one of the easiest, dude.
Renato Medeiros obviously it depends on your native language, alot of European languages such as Finnish, Hungarian and russian have very hard grammar but for learning to read write and speak middle eastern and far eastern languages tend to be the hardest. It's all relative to what goal you have.
Portuguese may be a little harder than similar languages, but iц noƿhere near az diφikult az džapanese, Finniʃ, Australian, and Canada.
This guy is such a stoner, lol takes 1 to know 1. Bet that's why he's so creative with language.
This guy is freaking weird. He wasn't that bad til he started using his hands to talk
No problem with using ones hands to talk.. His hands are just so teeny tiny
Stacey Brady talk about "little fingers"
Good pun
it was uploaded two weeks ago but nice try