HBO is develop a miniseries based on George R.R. Martin ’s Game Of Thrones series . Now the net has lease someone to write a nomenclature for the ledger ’ nomadic warrior people called Dothraki . Bodes well for worldbuilding in this show .
HBO is working with a member of the Language Creation Society , a group devoted to produce constructed language , or conlangs . ( Conlangs include everything from Esperanto to Elvish . ) In a release , HBO rep explained :
[ David J. ] Peterson draw inspiration from George R.R. Martin ’s verbal description of the spoken language , as well as from such languages as Russian , Turkish , Estonian , Inuktitut and Swahili . However , the Dothraki language is no simple mingle-mangle , babble or pidgin . It has its own unique sound , extensive lexicon of more than 1,800 parole and complex grammatical anatomical structure .
“ In designing Dothraki , I require to stay on as faithful as possible to the extant material in George R.R. Martin ’s series , ” says Peterson . “ Though there is n’t a lot of data , there is evidence of a rife parole order [ subject - verb - object ] , of adjective seem after noun , and of the lack of a copula [ ‘ to be ’ ] . I ’ve remained close to these element , creating a speech sound aesthetic that will be conversant to reader , while giving the language depth and genuineness . My fondest desire is for fans of the series to look at a Logos from the Dothraki language and be unable to severalize if it come from the book or from me – and for viewers not even to pull in it ’s a constructed language . ”
And in case you are arrive your panties in a bunch thinking about Dothraki , here are some tidbits :
The name for the Dothraki people – and their language – derives from the verb “ dothralat ” ( “ to ride ” ) .
The Dothraki have four different words for “ carry , ” three for “ thrust , ” three for “ pull out ” and at least eight for “ horse , ” but no word that stand for “ please ” or “ follow . ”
The retentive word in Dothraki is “ athastokhdeveshizaroon , ” which means “ from frill . ”
The words for “ have-to doe with , ” “ weighted net , ” “ occultation , ” “ dispute , ” “ redhead , ” “ expletive , ” “ funeral pyre , ” “ evidence , ” “ omen , ” “ fang ” and “ harvesting moonlight ” all have one element in common : “ qoy , ” the Dothraki word for “ blood . ”
Dothraki for “ to woolgather ” – “ thirat atthiraride ” – literally means “ to live a wooden life ” ; in Dothraki , “ wooden ” ( “ ido ” ) is synonymous with “ bogus . ”
The watchword for “ superbia ” – “ athjahakar ” – is derived from “ jahak , ” the traditional retentive braiding worn by Dothraki warriors ( “ lajaki ” ) .
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