You're not exactly the one who calls all the shots in the language. So now Dothraki absolutely has no word for thank you. That word sannacho doesn't exist.
So the boring version is this. This the phonology of Dothraki, and the linguists in the room will see that and know kind of what it is. Phonologies kind of arrange themselves in this way, but that was the endpoint.
It actually coheres very, very well. So that's how Dothraki ended up with H's coming M's and N's.
It actually coheres very, very well. And we have Dothraki.
It actually coheres very, very well. So in Dothraki, for example, the exact translation of that is "Anha tih mae," and then the other one is to "Me tih anna."
It actually coheres very, very well. And "Anha dothrak kemisoon," "I ride away from the dried fig." That's the canonical usage for those two cases.
If I had to come up with one more name, I think my head would explode. Then the Dothraki would name my neck, 'the place of the bloody stump.'" So that's how my notes got signed off when they came to me. It was like, OK then.
for referring to the periodic elements. Like the word for "need to" in Dothraki, zigerelat.
Why wouldn't you? Anyway, I thought what I would do is, since the book that I did, "Living Language Dothraki" just came out, I thought I would go over some steps about creating a language using Dothraki as a model, which is different from when you're sitting down and creating a brand new language just totally on your own, and you'll see why, but it's kind of a way in.
So this is one of those factoids that I put on this one page thing. So did you know the Dothraki have four different words for carry, three different words for push, three different words for pull, and at least eight different words for horse, but no word which means please.
This is just a little screen shot of an early version of the dictionary-- the English to Dothraki side of the dictionary that I had-- and I've highlighted there the Dothraki word for thank you. And then of course the next thing I did was just hit the Delete button, because of course when you're working for a television show, you have masters above you.
I get what you're trying to do here. Now here's the real Dothraki. No, no, no. That's just silly.
It actually coheres very, very well. So this is an epithet that the Dothraki use for Viserys, "The Cart King." And we know that khal is basically the work for king.
It actually coheres very, very well. The most controversial I did with Dothraki was add noun case to the nouns, because I love noun case.
It actually coheres very, very well. It's a little different with Dothraki.
It actually coheres very, very well. It wouldn't change anything about the Dothraki if suddenly that was their word for horse, was a gigantic dog, which I think
It actually coheres very, very well. It's the word for radish in Dothraki.
It actually coheres very, very well. So these are all in Dothraki.
Anyway, so I started working on "Game of Thrones" as a show based on these books written by George RR Martin. The first language I created for it was Dothraki. I wanted to create High Valerian and a variant of I call Low Valerian.
So if you Google Megdavi, you should find it. But anyway, with Dothraki I guess I always ask this question when I'm working for any show, which is basically are the speakers of this language approximately humanoid? So with the Dothraki, of course they're supposed to just be humans.
But anyway, with Dothraki I guess I always ask this question when I'm working for any show, which is basically are the speakers of this language approximately humanoid? So with the Dothraki, of course they're supposed to just be humans. But like with other shows I work on, for example, "Defiance." They're a bunch of aliens, but they're really, really kind of human-y aliens.
And then what happened later on when I was doing translation and I saw there was a new version of pilot, suddenly there was this new scene that was added where Emelia Clark turns to Iain Glen and says what's the Dothraki word for thank you? And then Jorah turns to her and says in Dothraki there is no work for thank you.
Emelia Clark turns to Iain Glen and says what's the Dothraki word for thank you? And then Jorah turns to her and says in Dothraki there is no work for thank you. As it happened, there was.
Also my wet food. Anyway, with Dothraki if you're a typologist, this is how Dothraki types basically. So the word order is subject verb object.
It actually coheres very, very well. First, Dothraki is going suffix-y.
It actually coheres very, very well. So one of the things I said on there is Dothraki has eight words for horse.
It actually coheres very, very well. Anyway, Dothraki has no words for these.
It actually coheres very, very well. It comes from the idea that basically a lot of Dothraki superstition and religion is tied up with cosmology.
It actually coheres very, very well. This is mentioned in the books that the Dothraki don't have a written form of their language, so of course, to fit with the cannon
I am kind of a screamy drunk. Tybalt, the love I bear thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting.
And so that's what it's focusing on, not the interactional properties of the human, but actually what it is and what it's doing. And so that's why there's only one word for "corner" in Dothraki. It was something I did on purpose, not by accident.
But of course, I discovered working for television series, there are other factors that come into play. So for example, when I did my Dothraki proposal-- and the way it worked it was a competitive process, so there were like 30 other language creators that were competing for that job.
It actually coheres very, very well. Now here's it doing something else, "Anha dothrak kemisaan," "I ride to the dried fig." I use the same word over and over
It actually coheres very, very well. And so remember how I showed you the little bit of the Dothraki fun facts.
It actually coheres very, very well. So for example, these are all words of Dothraki.
you have to have savings and investments. And that gives you the ability to be relatively independent of forces but he also wanted to learn, "whence is it that nature doth nothing in vain and whence arises all that order order and beauty which we see in the world."
So consider the case of fiction. So when you have a fictitious language, say Klingon or Dothraki, and you have to come up with what is the profane inventory going to be like, without exception, English speakers make up words that follow this heavy consonant at the end pattern.
Some of them, you'll know. So for example, for "Game of Thrones," I created the Dothraki and Valyrian languages. And this bottom one is Mag Nuk.
I can't even comprehend that. Then what I'll do is I'll give them one page of material that's called Dothraki fun facts, and it'll just have some of these things about the language that are totally-- the things that people don't really know a lot about language want to hear about language.
As it happened, there was. This is just a little screen shot of an early version of the dictionary-- the English to Dothraki side of the dictionary that I had-- and I've highlighted there the Dothraki word for thank you.
I love them for it. But anyway, so when I was creating the grammar of Dothraki, I actually had constraints. The big overall constraint that I was going to use George RR Martin's text as the primary document.
It actually coheres very, very well. And now it's like everybody's saying, oh, Dothraki has a million words for horse.
It actually coheres very, very well. Just small examples. This is the word for horse in Dothraki, hrazef.
It actually coheres very, very well. Fascinating. So yeah, Dothraki doesn't have a bunch of words for that, but it's because it's not really interesting that they don't have a word for pineapple.
It's a date! Oh, but it's not. Oo, spicy, Anne. Methinks the lady doth protest too much. I think I'm protesting just right.
It is the acquiescence of a large piece of information that identifies us as a species. It is that person from which whence we would not know as though he would say, with own words doth bated breath as she did not lay in the sun, did she not see the smiling of that natural landscape she did within be her--
It was like, come on. Seriously? So this was a challenge, because we could not afford to hire the people who invent Dothraki for "Game of Thrones," much less a choir to perform it and then record it and play on the audio book.
My name is David. And then you've seen, fantasy languages sometimes have names like this-- Cheysuli, Dothraki, Ferengi, Pakuni. And so that was how you got the name of that embarrassing language.
And now what am I going to do with it? And so for example, if you ask me right now, just a quick example, what the word for "corner" is in Dothraki, it's "kemikhof." And there actually isn't a distinction between an interior and exterior corner, but not by accident.
That's hilarious. And of course I used Comic Sans. Why wouldn't you? Anyway, I thought what I would do is, since the book that I did, "Living Language Dothraki" just came out, I thought I would go over some steps about creating a language using Dothraki as a model, which is different from when you're sitting down and creating a brand new language just totally