How to Create a Language: Dothraki Inventor Explains | WIRED 

Meanwhile the guy making languages for guardians of the galaxy. " I am groot".

I have an applied linguistics exam in 5 days. watching this doesn’t feel like procrastinating

Met this guy at a convention once, and basically learned he created at least two languages that never even got used. And one of them was for the White Walkers.

Anyone notice how his thumbs look like normal fingers?

The only Dothraki language i know is: _Alululululululu_

Someone needs to teach the Dothraki how to say “I’m outta here this fight ain’t for me chief”. That’s my take

Wired definitely needs another channel just devoted to linguistics lol

"and the object is the woman" just like the Dothraki

Some good conlang and linguistics channels for those that are interested: - Artifexian - Biblaridion - Nativlang - Langfocus - jan Misali - Agma Schwa - Colin Gorrie - Worldbuilding Notes - Nakari Speardane - Xidnaf - Polymathy - Simon Roper - K Klein - Dr. Geoff Lindsey David Peterson also has his own channel, as well as the LangTime Studios channel; where he livestreams every Thursday creating conlangs with fellow conlanger Jessie Sams.

I hope that David make the dothraki on duolingo. I can't believe that you can learn valyrian on duolingo is so amazing.

Butterfly in Afrikaans (my first language) is "skoenlapper", which directly translates to "shoe flapper".

This guy spent twice the amount of time creating languages used in maybe a couple hundred lines of dialogue, than did Weiss and Benioff creating the whole of season 6.

How to say "lol you thought we were all gone pfft" in Dothraki?

Even after watching I still dont get it how language is made

Once you see his thumbs, you can't unsee them.

"My largest language, Dothraki, has 4,000 words" And yet there's no word for "thank you" I love it 🤣

"I do syllable mostly because I am not convinced that actors will pull off a tone language correctly." HAHAHAHA

Here you go guys ♥ 1. What is the point? 2. Is it written, spoken, or signed? 3. Sounds. A. Consonants and Vowels B. Syllables C. Stress and Intonation • Stress Language: English (You have to stress the word by the letters). • Tone Language: Chinese (The actual pitch that you speak the Vallot is important). 4. Grammer. - Adjectives - Adverbs (thee main types) * Manner, Time, Place - Prepositions, Postpostitions - Determiners, Demonstratives Nouns:- • Singular vs Plural • dual or trail • nothing • Case • Gender • Masculine vs. Feminine • Big vs. Large • Living vs. Non-Living • Natural vs. Non-natural • Tool vs. Plant • High Valyrian Nouns • 4 Numbers • 8 Cases • 4 Genders Verbs 5. Sentence Structure. “The man [Subject] sees [Verb] the woman [Object].” Subject + Verb + Object 6. Derivation. Teach > Teacher Jelmio [wind] > Jelmazma [big wind] 7. Miscellaneous. - Writing Systems:- • Alphabet: Characters for vowels and consonants. [English] • Abjad: Charactes for consonants only. [Arabic] • Abugida: Main glyph for a consonant and some sort of a little addition for a vowel. [Hindi] • Logography: Glyphs that stand for entire word or parts of words or maybe more than one word depending on how it works [Chinese] 8. Lexicon The words of the language:- “Think about riding a horse, starting a fire, and think about what goes into that scenario, what’s happening, and what will speakers of this language have words for, with respect to that scenario.” 9. Create a reference. • Grammer and dictionary.

As a linguistics student, I am loving all this language-related content lately. I've had the desire to create the basics of my own conlang for a while now, and this really motivated me to get started. I also loved hearing the basics of the subject explained to me again, but in terms of constructing a language rather than studying existing ones. Hoping to see more of David too!

I was expecting this to be a good primer for conlangs. This was actually a *great* primer for conlangs. Well done, guy!

it was cool to see he recommended to study turkish along with japanese and french because i've realized that dothraki's grammar is similar to turkish. it was a great video!

Fascinating video describing a logical set of procedures for creating a language. The presentation was clear, logical (almost algorithmic), and informative. I hope you prepare and post sequels to this great video.

I could listen to this guy teach all day. Please have more videos with him. I like the editing you do, too.

Butterfly in Nepali is called 'putali'. And the female genitalia is called 'puti'. Now I'm no expert, but I think the elders were on to something here.

We need a meeting of him and the vocal coach dude

This dude will help me pass my linguistics exam he made me review all the program in just 13 minutes

this is absolutely the coolest video i have ever watched THANK YOU

"He throat rip. She throat rip. They throat it."

I envy this guy's brain. This was waaaay more interesting than I was expecting.

In my 4th year of linguisitics and you reignited my love for it! Thanks!

That was really interesting. Good simple editing too.

this stuff is so interesting, I love when you guys make videos like this

I'm just as confused as I was after watching this video

Last year, Peterson was a speaker at an event in Belgium which I attended. His talk was so interesting and inspiring. Fascinating stuff, linguistics and conlanging!

Butterfly in Icelandic is "Fiðrildi" which literally means "a Feathered Creature".....I think

The *r sound* David: I’m sorry for that one Spanish speakers: finally

I can’t believe I got to meet this guy and get a picture and conversation with him when he came down to my college, UAB. He’s an absolute genius

As a speech and language pathologist, this was very interesting to watch!

This is sooo interesting!! I kinda wanna know more about languages and be friends with this man

....Tolkien: "Hold my beer"

DId he say, Dothraki suberts the expectations?.... this thing runs deep

Yes! I was so fascinated finding out the Dothraki language that reminded me of persian and arabian was a constructed language, and immediately wanted to know more about David. So cool to see someone that like JRR created a language, but in modern time so I can actually get some tips 😂 Thanks for this video. I hope someday I can create a language aswell for my future stories.

This really did help alot. I've been so confused on how to make a language but this cleared up so much for me :)

This is a really interesting video, you can tell the person knows there topic well and is passionate about it.

I understood so much about languages listening to this! Thank you:)

RU-vid Algorithm: *Hey, I know you've never watched anything GOT related here on youtube, but hey! I'mma shove this in your recommended anyway :)*

He actually made this a lot easier for me to understand rather than the other YT videos I’ve watched. I shall go and continue my artlang :D

That was utterly fascinating, explained really well too 👍

When I saw the thumbnail I literally thought that that man was eating infinity stones... So yeah

0:35 I once actually used a similar idea on my fanfic aliens. They were called Y'hmma and they spoke in sign languages. But not in a normal way, they could morph their fingers into strange symbols. Another thing about their sign language is that they are telepathic in nature. You would literally know what they meant to say if they morphed their fingers.

This video was really something. I loved it.

Thank you, I'd run out of lectures of his to watch. This is v helpful.

I love this guy for creating the beautiful language for game of thrones ♥️

Him: I never have a favorite word in any language. Me: Schmetterling Him: Look up the word for butterfly.

This is beautiful. Thanks for the video.

Holy God! Incredible, I can’t even wrap my head around this

I’m starting my first year at university in a few months and I’ll be studying linguistics, so this video was particularly interesting and enjoyable for me. I especially liked the advice about studying unrelated languages since as a native speaker of Russian who is also studying English and Korean I can assure you that this recommendation is really good. Being immersed into these three completely different languages has definitely broadened my horizons!

Phonetics lesson by David J Peterson, I wish this was posted back when I was a 1st year student of English.

I recently read his book on creating a language. Didn't finish reading the book, but it was fascinating.

Oh my this was incredibly interesting. This guy is amazing.

I met this guy at UC Berkeley and he was amazing

Ah I’m glad I’m welsh - got brought up being able to make a lot of weird sounds. Like the rolling rs and the ch sounds and the ll sounds. It’s handy in that respect.

This is literally the coolest video I’ve ever seen

this was fascinating, get this guy on again! 10/10

I've see a few interviews with this guy I always find him fascinating I have absolutely no intentions of writing a language though

I got really sucked into this! So interesting! I really love learning the history of languages too and how they change and develop over time. Thanks for sharing! :-)

Very interesting subject, also an incredible job at that.

i like this guy's face , he looks like he gives great hugs

How do you say “the writers for Game of Thrones are incompetent morons” in Dothraki?

WOW. I was always wondering how did they created all of these languages e.g Avatar language or this Dothraki one. Amazingly creative process. No wonder why these sound so real.

Wow, I REALLY loved this video.

There's so much stuff that goes into this.

3:10 that's the sound you make when somebody asks you a question you don't know the answer to

This is basically a crash course in functional linguistics which I *love.*

This is helping me at keeping on with creating my own language :)

I dont know when that clip thing got added to RU-vid but that's madd smart

This guy took a hodgepodge of vocabulary and fabricated a rich and holistic conlang that remained true to the culture and tells a story of civilisation all on its own. Astounding dude.

I'm suspicious of anyone who's first example is tentacle monsters...... just sayin.

Never seen a vid like this, thank you!

Thanks Wired, I love this.

I'd love to hear this guy analyse amd explain Greenlandic language!!

More interesting than current season x)

This is the coolest video on RU-vid rn

I've just been kinda finessing my way of making my own language and while it's been successful, it's kinda hard to remember and sort it out. So this is very helpful for me.

ah uh eh ih aa (3:11) That was my reaction to episode 5

Great video, thanks! I am going to write a fantasy saga (well, one day, I dunno when I will really make it), so it was really helpful to me

This was so interesting

I really like that proximal-medial-distal distinction you made in your demonstratives! I've only seen that in 1 other conlang (Tyryani by Shmili langs).

Wow this is a lot more complicated than I thought it would be 😶

This man is brilliant. I've been working on my own language for about four years now and he has been inspiration

love this video

this is so amazing and super intricate

How to create a language _Swollow all the infinity Stones_ (1:42)

Even thought it's a very "you are your own worst critic" art, I believe that fictional lanugage construction doesn't get enough traction as a hobby or a job. You learn a lot of things about logic, human behavior, aestheticism and categorization, among other things.

Wow, thanks for this video

love him! as a Japanese student I can tell his inspired by it very much これ　それ　あれ

I can create a new language when I'm with my crush 🤷‍♂️

He also created Trig, the language of the grounders in the CW series, The 100❤️

Great job

I NEEDED THIS VIDEO A YEAR AGO. 😫😫😫