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It's something that goes back to cultural and racial stereotyping. You begin to wonder why and you realize, it's not actually the sound of it. There's this a characteristic that a language that has a sound like 'kha' is a harsh language, which is really bizarre, because then, if you ask people, 'What are harsh languages to your ear?' And they say things like, 'Oh, like German and Dutch and Russian and Arabic.' What they don't realize when they say that is that this sound, like 'kha' for example, it's found in both Spanish and French, but nobody describes those languages as harsh. Peterson: I think one of the key issues is that a lot of stereotypes about language have to do with sound, and they have really no basis, in fact. How do you think through that part?Дavid J. Lizzie O'Leary: Are there pitfalls to think about when you're doing this? I would imagine that you must think about not falling into racial or ethnic stereotypes, for example, or thinking about, I don't know, sounding like Western languages or non-Western languages.

So, we try to create something that fits the setting, that's fun, that we enjoy, that's interesting, but that adheres to what we know about human languages. However, everything that I do is informed by- I have a bachelor's and master's in linguistics- It's informed by what I know about language, because what you're trying to do, especially when you're creating a more or less realistic language, like I did for Game of Thrones and like I did with Christian Thalmann to create the Fjerdan language for Shadow and Bone, is you're trying to create something that is plausibly human, because the people that you're creating these languages for, it may be in a fantasy setting, but they're real human beings. It feels like you're just creating, like you're an artist. Peterson: In terms of how it feels, before I created languages, all I did was write fiction. Lizzie O'Leary: When you're doing something like this for Game of Thrones, for Shadow and Bone, are you a linguist? Are you a creator? How are you thinking about the structure of language? Are you operating just carte blanche in your head or are you trying to adhere to some rules that you know from existing languages?Дavid J. I applied with many others, and I was the one who made it through the gauntlet.

They announced it to language creators everywhere. What happened was the Language Creation Society put together a competition. The producers of Game of Thrones emailed the Language Creation Society out of the blue with no forewarning and asked if they could help create the Dothraki language. In 2009, the entire language creation community got an unexpected opportunity. I enjoyed it well enough, so that was fine for me. Really, I just did it recreationally and I expected that that would be the case, that I would only do it recreationally for the rest of my life. I just happened upon it and I hooked up with other language creators online and started to really learn the craft. Peterson: I started in 2000 when I was a sophomore at UC Berkeley. If I were to ask you to say hello in Dothraki, what would that be?Дavid J. Lizzie O'Leary: Before creating languages professionally, David had been creating them on his own for fun for a decade. Peterson: Dothraki, Valyrian, Irathient, Kinuk'aaz, Noalath, ShivГ¤isith, Bodzvokhan, Г–vГјsi. David has created a lot of languages.Дavid J. I'm a language creator and I've created over 50 languages for television shows and films in Hollywood. When places like HBO or Marvel need somebody to do that, construct a language from scratch, they often turn to this guy.Дavid J. Lizzie O'Leary: Fjerdan, which I don't speak, is just one of the fictional languages created specifically for Shadow and Bone, which is based on Leigh Bardugo's best-selling young adult fantasy novels.

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Movie Actor 2: Where did you learn how to speak Fjerdan like a native? Like a lot of big-budget fantasy shows and movies, think Game of Thrones and The Lord of the Rings, Shadow and Bone immerses its audience in its fictional world, complete with new lands, new people, new creatures and new languages.

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The new Netflix series Shadow and Bone follows an orphaned teen named Alina Starkov who suddenly discovers extraordinary powers that could change the face of her war-ravaged world. I'm Lizzie O'Leary in for Tanzina Vega this week. Lizzie O'Leary: Back with you on The Takeaway.

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