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An insiders tour through the construction of invented languages from the best-selling author and creator of languages for the HBO series *Game of Thronesand the Syfy series Defiance*.
From master language creator David J. Peterson comes a creative guide to language construction for sci-fi and fantasy fans, writers, game creators, and language lovers. Peterson offers a captivating overview of language creation, covering its history from Tolkiens creations and Klingon to todays thriving global community of conlangers. He provides the essential tools necessary for inventing and evolving new languages, using examples from a variety of languages including his own creations, punctuated with references to everything from Star Wars to Michael Jackson. Along the way, behind-the-scenes stories lift the curtain on how he built languages like Dothraki for HBOs Game of Thrones and Shivisith for Marvels Thor: The Dark World, and an included phrasebook will start fans speaking Petersons constructed languages.
The Art of Language Invention is an inside look at a fascinating culture and an engaging entry into a flourishing art form - and it might be the most fun youll ever have with linguistics.
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THE ART OF LANGUAGE INVENTION
David J. Petersons The Art of Language Invention accomplishes a minor miracle in taking a potentially arcane discipline and infusing it with life, humor, and passion. It makes a compelling and entertaining case for language creation as visual and aural poetry. I cherish words, I love books about words, and for me this is the best book about language since Stephen Frys The Ode Less Traveled . And, best of all, theres a phrasebook!
Kevin Murphy, co-creator and showrunner of Syfys Defiance
If you want to know how someone makes up a language from the ground up, youll find out how in this bookand the glory of it is that along the way youll get the handiest introduction now in existence to what linguistics is. In fact, read this even if you dont feel like making up a language!
John McWhorter, author of The Language Hoax
Accessible, entertaining, and thorough, Peterson has created an invaluable resource for authors, dedicated fans, and casual enthusiasts. This is the book I wish Id had when I started writing.
Leigh Bardugo, New York Times bestselling author of Shadow and Bone
This book not only lucidly ushers language invention into its own as an art form, its also an excellent introduction to linguistics.
Arika Okrent, author of In the Land of Invented Languages
George R. R. Martin created Drogo, and David Benioff and Dan Weiss believed in me, but David Peterson gave me life.
Jason Momoa
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THE ART OF LANGUAGE INVENTION
DAVID J. PETERSON was born in Long Beach, California, in 1981. He began creating languages in 2000, received his M.A. in linguistics from the University of California, San Diego, in 2005, and cofounded the Language Creation Society in 2007. The inventor of numerous languages for television, film, and novels, he is best known for creating Valyrian and Dothraki for HBOs hit series Game of Thrones, adapted from George R. R. Martins A Song of Ice and Fire series. He is the bestselling author of Living Language Dothraki:A Conversational Language Course Based on the Hit Original HBOSeries Game of Thrones. He has also created languages for Syfys Defiance and Dominion, as well as Thor 2:The Dark World and the CWs Star-Crossed and The 100.
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Ayeris Tahano Hikamu script used by permission of Carsten Becker. Carsten Becker, 2014.
Sondiv (or Atrian) language from Star-Crossed television series. Courtesy of CBS Studios Inc.
The Dothraki and Valyarian languages from the HBO original series Game of Thrones. 2011 Home Box Office, Inc. All rights reserved. HBO and related service marks are the property of Home Box Office, Inc.
Dark Elf language appears courtesy of Marvel Studios.
Phrases from the SyFy television program Defiance appear courtesy of NBCUniversal Media, LLC.
Minza text from Conlang Relay 13 used by permission of Herman M. Miller. 2006 Herman M. Miller.
Rikchik language used by permission of Denis Moskowitz. Copyright 19972014 by Denis Moskowitz.
Sakhii Widoshni (Naming Ceremony) illustration used by permission of Trent M. Pehrson. 2014 Trent M. Pehrson.
Klens Ceremonial Interlace alphabet used by permission of Sylvia Sotomayor.
Da Mtz se Basa language from 13 th Conlang Relay used by permission of Henrik Theiling.
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Peterson, David J., 1981
The art of language invention : from Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the words behind world-building / David J. Peterson.
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The first time I heard a language of mine spoken on-screen was at a cast and crew premiere event for the first season of HBOs Game of Thrones. It was a lavish, but, comparatively speaking, poorly attended event. George R. R. Martin was there, but many of the seats reserved for cast members in the Ray Kurtzman Theater remained vacant throughout the screening of the first two episodes of the series. Needless to say, they didnt know how big this thing would get (who did?), but I appreciated the extra legroomand the front-row seat.
My initial reaction to hearing Dothraki, the language of the long-braided, horse-riding warriors, though, was one of dismay. The first line one hears in the series is in the pilot, when Illyrio Mopatis, welcoming Khal Drogo and his band into his courtyard to arrange a marriage, says Athchomar chomakaanWelcome when said to one person. I misremembered how Id translated it, though, and thought he should have said Athchomar chomakeaWelcome when said to more than one person. So even though Roger Allams performance was fine and it was I who was mistaken, I was a little miffed. After the screening had finished we all got in line to congratulate David Benioff and Dan Weiss on a successful premiere, and when they asked me how the Dothraki speakers did, my face must have betrayed me, for David said to me, You know, we [i.e. he and Dan] were talking, and we realized, if any of the actors made a mistake, who would know itexcept for you?
This is actually a question Ive gotten a lot since. That is, if theres an actor performing in a created language that no one speaks, who will know if they make a mistake aside from the one who created the language? From experience, I can tell you that the actors always know (and it frustrates them when the takes with errors make their way into the final cut), but let me focus on the audience.
If you, as a viewer, sit down and listen to one line from a created language and nothing else, its nearly impossible to tell if its a created language, a natural language one doesnt know (one that exists in our world), or gibberishto say nothing about whether or not the actor gets all the words right. If thats the extent of the linguistic material in the production, it doesnt matter what work went into creating the line.
As the number of lines increases, though, the odds of the casual audience member picking up on inconsistencies increase. Its not every fan who pays attention to what actors are saying in a language they dont understand, but there are those who do. Furthermore, television shows and movies arent playsthat is, they arent events that happen at one moment in time and are never seen again. If the general public is anything like me, most of the television and movie viewing they do now isnt done liveand if a show is worth its salt, theyll watch it again and again and again and again.
As a language creator, I always had a bit of a different perspective. When I was creating Dothraki, I wasnt creating it simply to fill out the requisite non-English dialogue. I had an idea that Game ofThrones could be big, and could occupy a special place in television historyjust as George R. R. Martins books already do occupy a special place in the history of fantasy. The work I was doing, then, would need to be something that would stand the test of time. Because even if a fan whos never heard of the books cant tell if one actor makes a mistake in the premiere on their first viewing, fans five, ten, twenty years from now
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