"on a TV budget" and "on an HBO TV budget" can be widely different animals, heh

Good lord, I forgot The Office was on the air long enough to reference GoT.

One thing I heard about Dothraki is that they actually have a whole bunch of words for "horse", because obviously they would. If they're dealing with horses so much, the distinction between a workhorse or a warhorse or a breeding horse is actually really useful. Unfortunately, no one knew which horses they were gonna get on screen until they started filming, so DJP couldn't put specific words in the script, like "take this mare back to the stables" only for the horse actor to end up being a stallion.

DJP making his wife's name translate into Good Duck in Dothraki is very wholesome.

The professionalism in this is great, but I have to admit that I kinda miss your jabs and jokes. Maybe this was just an episode where you reviewed a conlang you actually respected so you didn't have as much to joke about, but I think that relaxed atmosphere added a lot of personality to your videos. I hope you can find a way to be more informal without being unstudied in your future videos

2:25 CC: "It sounds alot like arabic or russian to people who don't speak arabic or russian." Me, a native arabic speaker: *spits out arabic coffee*

Tbh I’m Arab and Dothraki sounds a lot like Arabic “ana” means me in both Dothraki and Arabic also my love in Dothraki is moon of my life, in Arabic we say “gamar hayati” = moon of my life.

In Hebrew, the expression for notice/pay attention translates literally to "Put in your heart", similar to care in Dothraki.

Nobody going to mention the (accidental) jab by using "ido" for fake/wooden?

David J. Peterson has an incredible talent for doing really cool and interesting conlangs that are attached to things I have no interest in watching. Trigedasleng is one of my top five conlangs of all time but I couldn't get through two episodes of the 100.

So you're starting the season with Dothraki and ending it with Quenya? Quite, poetic

9:08 Wait, "vash" means "stampede" in Dothraki? Haha, yes! That moment when you sneak a subtle Trigun reference into your fictional language.

J.K Rowling announced that you, the viewer, were David Petersen all along

The actors in the show (At least early on) go all over in pronunciation. Most pronounce Khaleesi as Kalisi

Breadspeak BREADSPEAK PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, ADD BREADSPEAK TO THE BIG LIST, I DONT CARE HOW LONG IT TAKES JUST PLEASE DO IT

This feels like a student trying to grade his teacher.

I love Peterson's work, each language he's made has always had depth that Klingon (still one of my favorites because Star Trek) lacks. I like Dothraki's phonotactics and Nahuatl-esque vowel inventory a lot, although, I noticed in your sample, just like in Japanese, a tendency towards pseudo-diphthongs (use of a diphthong despite it not being part of the blackletter phonology), which I think is more organic than explicitly separating the sounds for rigid phonological agreement.

There's nothing wrong with SVO, it's a very common word order, almost on par with SOV. It would be much weirder to have to make your conlang look exotic in every way (especially if it's spoken by humans, in a universe similar to ours).

Watching conlang critic while conlanging

F for Dothraki, went extinct in 1 Cavalry Charge

Yes. I'm really excited for the rest of the season now. This is a really good start.

this new format is glorious

Those jabs at GoT tho lmao. I have loved the show since the beginning, and although it SERIOUSLY fell from grace which is a damn shame, all the seasons where you'd hear Dothraki spoken for more than just a few words (which is pretty much s1-4) are some of the best tv that exists in my opinion. Awesome video btw, channels like yours are such an inspiration when I'm either bored out of my mind or overwhelmed with linguistics homework and need motivation to do that morphosyntax analysis that I've been procrastinating for longer than I'd care to admit. So thank you. Apart from the great editing and obvious enthusiasm for the topic, your expertly done communication of knowledge and conscise wording are extremely helpful. So thanks for doing what you do.

YO I LOVED THE RHYTHM HEAVEN MUSIC AT THE END THANK YOU

This channel is making me realize how truly terrible my conlang I built in high school was lmao. I'm truly glad you like base 6, cause at that point that's like the only positive I can really say about it.

Awesome episode! I also recently found my brother’s copy of that Doþraki guide. I can’t wait for Sindarin and Quenya!

Next language: Quenya. I started studying it and it's beautiful

Hangonaminit... Vash hrazefmen... Stampede horse-empty... Vash... the Stampede!!! :O :O

Please cover NeoKhuzdul(Dwarrow Scholar has the most updated and developed information regarding it) & Nadsat(from Clockwork Orange)!!! Super excited to see you cover the Dothraki language!!!

Definitely a huge step up in quality! Looking forward to seeing more!

"con this lang" is a great phrase, I'm taking it

Militarily, the Dothraki are light cavalry with the macho ethos of charging into infantry formations. They ought to be extinct and now they pretty much are.

I loved this episode. Can you do one about high valyrian

Oh damn you would be doing Quenya last. It's the language that got me into conlangs, so I'll eagerly wait for it.

"Vash", part of a phrase that translates to stampede. :D Does anyone know if D.J.P.'s a fan of Trigun?

By the name of the gods, he has returned.

I'm not even that big into conlangs but I love your channel because of how well you explain them.

I love the rhythm heaven stuff you use! Every time I hear it, it makes me smile

iT sOuNdS a LoT lIkE aRaBiC aNd RuSsIaN aMoNg PeOpLe WhO dOnT kNoW wHaT aRaBiC aNd RuSsIaN sOuNd LiKe this man is the master of sass

Just as a note... German has the same translations for "to kill" - umbringen (done by person), töten (generally, by a thing, animal or person) and schlachten (slaughter an animal or like a animal, which also can be "abschlachten"). Also the fact that it has cases like that might be an indicator it's inspired by German or Russian in its structure, but I actually don't know any more languages that use cases for nouns..

Ooooh, spoken segment. That really ties the video together... we learn about the language, then hear it afterwards for some practical application! Can't wait for more of those!

Him: Sees 2 days, 20 hours, 15 minutes. "Omg, that's way to long." Me: Sees 2 days, 20 hours, 15 minutes. "Hey, that's not really that long, I've watched that much TV plenty of times before. Maybe I should watch Game of Thrones."

You should rate High Valyrian. I have tried to learn it but never really gotten past the noun cases or noun plurals.

I have been waiting for this, Janette.

it genuinely blows my mind how believable this language is. you could show me any chart saying it's from say, some random language in papua new guinea, and i wouldn't be the wiser. very refreshing contrast against the languages you analyzed from star trek or skyrim or avatar.

8:54 I just noticed that in italian too there are 3 distinct ways to say "to kill", which are more or less synonims to each other "ammazzare" (a bit informal), "uccidere" (classic to kill) and "massacrare" (to massacre)

After doing some reading, apparently David J Peterson also created a language for one of my favorite series: The 100. Trigedasleng (a language I'd suggest for a review btw) is based on English, and in the canon it was created as a coded form of American English (during nuclear war) that evolved rapidly as a native language over three generations after society fell apart. For that purpose, David did a damn good job.

I love it. I'm curious whether it would be worth it to make a totally-not-ranking list of languages sorted by their ratings, just to keep track of the languages covered and the broad strokes of their relations.

Much more in-depth episode Loving the new season

I mean... Latin also has three words for kill (necare, occidere, interficere among others).

It's about time you uploaded a real video I almost forgot about you

Please bring back the rankings. It would honestly my favorite part of these. 😅

This is the first video about fictional language i see and I am amazed 😱 how can this be a thing? How can someone create an entire new language? Is too cool i cannot comprehend.

(4:25) Well, if you're used to English romanisation, it make sense. But there are other ways to do it, like the Slavic way: c /ts/, č /tʃ/, š /ʃ/ ž /ʒ/, j /j/ (which I personally prefer) And then there's the Swedish way: ts /ts/, tsj /tʃ/, sj /ʃ/, zj /ʒ/, j /j/ And many other systems too.

This series has inspired me to create an artlang based on frogs and things frogs care about

Appreciating the high effort content here

this is super great, glad to see the improvement in video quality! :^D

Lord Misali has done it again!

Can you do High Valyrian next?

Great video and even better conlang! If only we saw this kind of CLC more than once a year

great video! hope you're proud of it, i know you worked hard on it

'The Dothraki have no word for 'Thank you'.' 9:35 - 'General Expressions: Haja! = Cheers!' Hmm, seems as if they *do* have a way to say 'thanks' after all.

Keep it up. We need this

Fantastic episode! I want more of this. :-D

I missed you!!

How about Oqolaawak (by Biblaridion)? Or Oa (by Artefixian)?

Please do Breadspeak! It is a new conlang from the Vötgil guy, and he watched your video!!

This makes me want to make a script for this. They could cite it in the show to some ancient, little-known character who only recently gained attention.

@jan Misali, what's the chances you might put out a general, "Don't do this with your conlang" compendium?

Nice rhythm heaven music at the end!

Great, proper long episodes now!!! Thank you Please could you redo Ithkuil as a long episode?? Please??

"me" is also 1pl in Finnish, so looking how they handled the two locative cases it could very well be inspired by Finnish too

9:32 that poster is in my school

10:45 That makes sense in a way. A horse in this culture is not usually something that is entitled to make its own decisions. Any horse you encounter day-to-day would be domesticated, and would usually be seen more as an instrument of a rider's will. Wild horses are simply a natural resource that has yet to be harnessed. A river on the other hand does what it pleases, you don't harness it's power because nobody does that, and if it floods you had best get out of the way. Maybe "mastery" would be a more appropriate term for this concept?

Is there a way you will do a video about the Barsoomian language from John Carter of Mars books? I’m not even sure if there’s enough info on it or if it’s fleshed out enough for that to be possible but if it is, I’d like to see a video on that

I just realized that a lot of times when I'm not trying to muffle a laugh, but my mouth does a weird thing anyway, I make the velar fricative sound, or at least something close to it. Hmm.

IT'S HERE

This sounds like a really fun and easy conlang!

I'm certain that snippet at the end, Khal Drogo's declaration, is the scene that made Jason Momoa a star.

very cool! Nice analysis.

Would be cool to get your review of "Sona" by Kenneth Searight. An interesting conlang with an arguably equally interesting backstory.

Finally it's here! whoo!

Thank you, slow button. I finally can listen to what he said.

oh yeah, and DJP had to make two kinds of Valyrian for the show while he was making Dothraki.

Methinks "Zero Copula" (seen 'round the 6:30 pt. of this video) would make a great conlang-themed band-name!!

Hello! Have you seen the movie arrival and, if so, have you considered making a video about it?

i started watching this channel for the conlangs, and now for the Seximal (will still watch conlang vids tho)

awwww I liked the old ranking system

Good video. Can I submit a request for any of Tolkien's languages, like Sindarin or Quenya

Even if you have a ten based system you could still have a remnants of another system. Especially scores/vignidecimal like in Danish and French. Or count by dusins and gros like most traders did in Europe dispite ten-based being more official.

vash means stampede... David must be a Trigun fan!

This is awesome!

I'm thinking the -ø adjective agreement suffix is essentially a singular, nominative. Does this make sense?

OMG I AM A HUGE FAN JAN MISELI I LOVE YOU

Odd little note that I didn't see anyone else say (tho I didn't go through every comment since last year when this was posted): Vash the Stampede is a character in the anime classic Trigun. So it was interesting to notice that stampede in Dothraki is vash. I wonder if the word for typhoon (if the Dothraki have one) also involves vash, since the character's other name was The Human Typhoon. This is assuming the word comes from the character at all and isn't a complete coincidence.

I love when you say the consenants

Hi, I'm kinda new to the channel and this video kinda gave me a first very reasonable example of why a conlang should actually exist, and that's obviously art, but I'm confused as to if there are any other reasons one should be created, and so why so many people make conlangs. Can someone explain? (sorry for bad English, non native speaker here)

One of the Russian words for fake also translates to as wooden, or more specifically "made of linden"

FWIW, in (some varieties of) Limburgs “me” is like “man” in German or “on” in French or “one” in particularly pompous English.

So there are apparently two languages Peterson made for the Game of Thrones series. The second is Valyrian. I found this out because Duolingo offers a course in High Valyrian. As far as conlangs go, Valyrian vaguely reminds me of Latin. It's a lot smoother (maybe "richer", as in "spoken by wealthy people"?) and could be more Romance-inspired than Dothraki.