How can there be so few in the audience?! This was so interesting.

So since you spoke to Google... is the Dothraki Language available in Google Translate now?

I could listen to this dude talk about languages and linguistics for *decades.*

the language he created for the 100 was even better in my opinion us 100 fans love it. It's called Trideslang and David has somehow managed to transform and mutate the English language, It's incredible

I want him to be my English teacher

This guy's awesome. Mad respect. I love Game of Thrones. I'm so going to buy that Dothraki book. He should write a book on the Valyrian languages as well. I really want to learn and be fluent in both Dothraki and High Valyrian. =)

Remember kids, don't do morphemes!

This is like the only instance of a linguist achieving star-like status...

Perhaps "kemis" could be used as a euphemism for the scrotum/testicles? (the resemblance is uncanny, after all) If so, I'd imagine the sentence "Anha nithak kemisoon" would be preeety common after a long day's ride.

I'm disappointed that there are no videos of kids speaking Dothraki as a first language. I thought you people were fans.

o.o I'm still proud of j.r.r tolkein for making Quenya/elvish by himself.

As someone who is in the process of creating a conlang for an RPG I've created, your videos have been extremely helpful - Multa pued (many thanks)

Some of these words are very similar to Arabic and Hebrew

the reverse order of adj comes after noun is what we do in France ( ex : a STRONG boy in english becomes un garçon FORT in french )

For me, I take issue with a language that both relies on strict word order but still retains noun declensions. I wonder if he added any homonyms to the language. Very happy to see the full phonological inventory. It's a shame the sounds were restricted to what was explicitly present in the books and not extended via the principles of language change.

Wow, very informative speech. Very cool to hear how you come about the structure of the languages and all the looks you created. I was wondering how the actors manage to learn new languages and how indepth their learning go, as far as do they only bother to learn their exact lines, or is there an underlying understanding of the words? Seems like it's the latter.

Add dothraki to google translate

Interesting talk! 31:12 Fun fact: in Dakota, the word for horse is "šuŋktháŋka" which means big dog.

The first book emphasizes that the Dothraki place importance on doing actions under the open sky. Does the Dothraki language have a verb aspect which divides actions into the categories of actions taking place in the open, and actions taking place inside tents/shelters/buildings?

at 45:19 that's Nick Farmer the language creator for the tv show 'The Expanse'!

This guy is amazing, but i'm not satisfied with his answer to that man's question about prosody. I don't think he was trying to ask why the language wasn't intonation based like Mandarin but more of the general cadence/rhythm of the language. Also French being stress timed is likely to be the remnant of the celtic language once spoken in Gaul. Nobody ever seems to make that connection

anyone else went to altavista?

This is so cool!

Since he couldn't create a script for Dothraki, did he perhaps (or will he in the future) make a script for Valyrian? I imagine Valyrians have a written form of their language. In the show they just used English/Latin alphabet (like in Meereen or wherever, where some people wrote on the wall "Kill the masters" "Mhysa is a master"). It kind of took me out of the show to see that in English/Latin alphabet, if the people of the city are speaking Valyrian (or Astapori Valyrian, I don't remember which city it was).

I can't believe he had the hairstyle even as a freshman

The ambiance of that audience reminds me of the work place scenes in Orwells 1984.. I don't know why

I still don't get why Dóthraki or High Valyrian aren't on Google translate

Do you know how YT translate you Dothraki to English? deathrocky. :) Amazing and inspirational job.

To his point on swears: in quebecois french, many of the strongest curses are religious in derivation; in japanese, the most offensive curses are often progressively stronger ways to say “die”.

I tried to figure out how people say both if not with the 'L' sound in there. It took me a bit, but I think I did it and it feels so unnatural.

Hey, he's my age. Makes me feel useless!

It’s funny how we used to treat sicknesses back then...

Jean Perron was probably born in the province of Québec in Canada. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Perron

I just noticed that Dothraki is misspelled on the title card.

can anyone give me any alternatives to "doing morphemes" he mentions at the beginning? genuinely interested in other approaches and i dont know how to look for/up such a thing

I am a very big fan of the Game of thrones series language of the Dothraki, while saying that I prefer High Valyrian out of all the famous movie languages! The language of the dothraki just sounds so repetitive but that's just my opinion.

17:22 Uhh Catphone!

0:13 That has a whole new meaning now...

I kind of had to do the same thing to as starting a language when someone had done something already with it. When I started to create a language for a specific species, I had to use all of the sounds that were in the names we’d chosen for them. Over time we’d developed a pronunciation guide for their names. So I just picked sounds not letters and used that as the basic phonology. Interestingly their mouths are somewhat longer than a human’s. So they have one additional place of articulation along the roof of their mouth. And they also have fangs, so they struggle with certain bilabials (b,p, etc).

Does this mean that Vaes dothrak is "the city of rider"/"the city of the rider" instead of "the city of riderS" I think I have heard or read that they translate vaes dothrak to the city of riders, in plural form.

It sounds so much like Arabic.

There should be Dothrakie on google translate

Indojin needs a Wikipedia page!

At the first glance of Dothraki grammar, you would be impressed by the feeling of looking at a very ancient language of not the historical nomadic people but the predecessors and ancestors of those who would later become nomadic, such as Ruoqiang in pre-Indo-European Uyghurstan, ANE in prehistoric Siberia, or some sort of Paleo-Eskimo language. But in the mean time, you would soon discover some sort of sense of artificiality or constructedness. A prehistorical pre-nomadic language should be more spontaneous if it's less analytic than this. This language sounds like what you would get, as a result, if you have displaced an entire tribe or caste of Circassian or Ket speakers and relocated them among the ocean of higher-social-rank Austronesian or Etruscan speakers insularly for several generations. I understand they were trying very hard to imitate what Valyrians sound like, maybe that's the reason why its so strongly but not fully right-branching...?

I pronounce both with a velar lateral

how funny- he and i were in the same school in the same department and we never (that i remember) crossed paths. By far not this most interesting thing of this talk but just struck me. Guess you never know who is going to school with you.

How can I make my languages more realistic?

My family says bolth

11:50 looks like he's describing Icelandic…

12:07 matt damon with hair

Only 5 noun cases? Why not go for 8 or 10? Or 30...

Noun cases in a strongly head-initial language can be controversial? If it was anywhere realistic, it would have at least 16 of them.

Don't do morphemes, hmkay? Morphemes are bad for you, hmkay?

there is a youtuber called phonecatss

I think yahoo acquired Alta Vista

7:37 you're welcome

>goes to altavista >is now yahoo

Comic Sans, used with some irony and what-the-hellism. That's the only allowable use.

Stalin's Stallion is Stalin'!

17:27 me right now

9:48 that reminds me that i criated a 20 pronoun system for esperanto because i didn't(and still don't) like their copy paste of english... it was messy

I think the Indogene language is naturalistic for the Indogene people but just not for us humans who wouldn't be able to move our hands like that.

i swear to god cases are the devil ahahha they're such a pain to learn

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45:45 What in the devil is he talking about? I'm French, and I can't think of a single swear word or phrase that refers to the devil. If anything, English is the one that has a lot of religious swear words.

What was the language he couldn't say anything about?

9:40

This audience is fucking brutal

20:00 ish when he talks about no articles that isnt uncommon. My second language, latin has no articles either.

Sounds like arabic to me

There are tribal languages that only use click ;0 But dam this is awesome

I’m sure that word he doesn’t recognize means ‘freedom’

Dothraki doesn't have much, or many? O.o lol

Russian has more than twenty pronouns

I didn't know this guy wrote a song of ice and fire. Oh he just claims he wrote parts of the books

OK! Seventeen minutes in and you haven't taught a thing. I am definitely getting bored. I came to learn and you waste my time. I came to learn, I don't have to be persuaded, the class is not mandatory, and I don't care if you think conlangs are "awesome" or "awful". Maybe some day you will get around to a more compact style. I am going elsewhere.

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