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episode 276: Linguistics, Conlangers and Game Of Thrones' Dothraki
Guest: David J. Peterson Host: Markus Voelter Shownoter: Stefaan Rillaert
Conlangers are people who design human languages, either just for fun or for use in works of fiction, often TV series or movies. My guest, David Peterson, has designed several languages, including the the Dothraki language featured prominently in Game Of Thrones. In this episode we use Dothraki (and English, and a bit of German) to introduce the basics of linguistics, i.e., the science behind natural (and in this case, designed) languages. We also discuss a few specific of Dothraki, and how it gets used in Game Of Thrones.
- David’s Book (paper, Kindle, audio book)
- David’s Google Talk
Introduction 00:01:51
David Peterson | David Petersons' book 'The Art of Language Invention' | Game of Thrones | Dothraki | Linguistics | Esperanto
Dothraki 00:04:36David Petersons' Dothraki talk at Google | Game of Thrones books | Noun | Grammar | Adjective | Verb | Object | Subject | Preposition and postposition | Inflection | Compound | Language Creation Society | Grammatical case | Article | Actors about Dothraki in Game of Thrones | Dothraki conversation in Game of Thrones
Ingredients of a language 00:18:31Phonetics | Phonology | Syllable | Intonation | Tone | Vowel | Consonant | Fricative | Grammatical gender | Morphology | Lexicon | David Peterson on the Lexicon Valley podcast | High Valyrian | Syntax | Place before time word order in English | Ordering of adjectives in English | Flexible word order in Latin | Emoji | Inverted question and exclamation marks (in Spanish) | Rhetorical question | Pragmatics | Speech disfluency | Semantics | Lexicographer | Urban dictionary | Guy Steele's keynote on "Growing a language" | Singular 'They' | Minimalist languages | Basic English | Alphabet | Twitter 280 characters
Developing Dothraki 01:50:14Eskimo words for snow | 'How to invent a language' in Wired | Phonology