Dothraki language

In 2012, 146 newborn girls in the United States were named "Khaleesi", the Dothraki term for the wife of a khal or ruler, and the title adopted in the series by Daenerys Targaryen.

[5] David J. Peterson and his development of the Dothraki language were featured on an April 8, 2012 episode of CNN's The Next List.

These two constraints influenced the grammar and phonology of the language: for instance, as in English, there is no contrast between aspirated and unaspirated stops.

I tend to think of the sound as a mix between Arabic (minus the distinctive pharyngeals) and Spanish, due to the dental consonants.

If there were to be any written examples of Dothraki in the A Song of Ice and Fire universe, it would be in a writing system developed in the Free Cities and adapted to Dothraki, or in some place like Ghis or Qarth, which do have writing systems.

The geminates of consonants marked with digraphs have a reduced orthography: Dothraki has a four vowel system shown below: There are no diphthongs.

[9][10] In the A Song of Ice and Fire books, ⟨u⟩ never occurs as a vowel, appearing only after ⟨q⟩, and only in names, as in Jhiqui and Quaro.

Verbs conjugate in infinitive, past, present, future, two imperatives and (archaic) participle; they also agree with person, number and polarity.

In a basic sentence, the order of these elements (when all three are present) is as in English: first comes the subject (S), followed by the verb (V), and then the object (O).

Further examples of demonstratives include:[15] jinthisarakharakh (type of blade)jin arakhthis {arakh (type of blade)}rekthathrakkareslionrek hrakkaresthat lionFurther examples of adjectives include:[16] rakhboyhajstrongrakh hajboy strong'strong boy'alegraduckivezhwildalegra ivezhduck wild'wild duck'Adverbs normally are sentence final, but they can also immediately follow the verb.

[13] In the episode "Andy's Ancestry" from the United States television show The Office, Dwight Schrute created the Dothraki phrase "throat rip" by putting "throat" in the accusative and placing it in front of the transitive verb.