Saturday, October 03, 2015

The Creator of ‘Game of Thrones” Dothraki and Valyrian Tongues on How He Invents New Languages

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Before he wrote The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien was a linguist who created an entire family of elvish languages, tracing their evolution from a common antecedent. Today, partially inspired by Tolkien, partly by global language movements like Esperanto, and partly by the world of coding, an entire community of “Conlangers” — people who construct languages for fun — has emerged and flourishes online.
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