David Petersonis a linguist and the God Almighty of the Dothraki language for Game of Thrones . He ’s here today to respond our questions about creating new languages , the role of learning languages in Game of Thrones , and how to make small talk in Dothraki .
In accession to his piece of work creating language of HBO ’s Game of Thrones , which he ’s been work on since 2009 , Peterson has also work on crafting oral communication for Defiance , Dominion , and Star - Crossed . His first book , The Art of Language Invention , is due out next year and he also has aDothraki coursethat will be uncommitted this October .
He ’ll be joining us from 10:30 – 11:30 am PT today to take our questions . So start asking him now about the cognitive process of creating a language , the intricacies of Dothraki , and what kinds of linguistic cues are present in the George R.R. Martin ’s stories .
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