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Professor explains his creation of Dothraki language for HBO's Game of Thrones TV series

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:01:00 -0500

When HBO decided to turn George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones into a TV series, they realized they needed to turn the Dothraki language written about in the book into an actual, spoken language. They turned to a California professor, David J. Peterson, who specialized in making up languages.

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 04:03:03 -0500

I didn't think it was possible to write an article on this subject that didn't mention J R R Tolkien.

Ken

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 07:17:12 -0500

Neither Klingon nor Dothraki hold a candle to Pakuni:

http://lotl.popapostle.com/html/pakuni.htm