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dothraki

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for dothraki.

Editorial note

He claims to have based the Dothraki on the Huns, Mongols and other steppe people, yet they behave nothing at all like them.

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Definitions2
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Quick take

A constructed language created for, and spoken in, the Game of Thrones television adaptation in 2011.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of dothraki gathered in one view.

noun

A constructed language created for, and spoken in, the Game of Thrones television adaptation in 2011.

noun

A fictional person who speaks the language in A Song of Ice and Fire and its adaptation Game of Thrones.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dothraki.

noun

A constructed language created for, and spoken in, the Game of Thrones television adaptation in 2011.

noun

A fictional person who speaks the language in A Song of Ice and Fire and its adaptation Game of Thrones.

Example sentences

1

He claims to have based the Dothraki on the Huns, Mongols and other steppe people, yet they behave nothing at all like them.

2

I'm currently reading a book written by the guy who created the Dothraki and High Valerian languages for Game of Thrones.

3

Or Jon Snow calmly taking his boat to exile in the middle of Unsullied and Dothraki - he just killed their Queen and Liberation figure.

4

The Dothraki were united by a woman who controlled 3 dragons and had gained a highly disciplined Unsullied army, then was gifted with a navy.

5

For Dothraki you really just need something really alien sounding.

6

None of the moongrass, that is overgrowing the dothraki steppe.

7

As a committed conlanger (but not a good one: I didn't land the Dothraki contract), I read this article with some trepidation.

8

DJP has stuff up at dedalvs.com, dothraki.conlang.org, dedalvs.tumblr.com, twitter.com/Dedalvs, &c.

9

Peterson (the creator of conlangs in Dune as well as Dothraki and High Valyrian in GoT) said that it was actually just English, but warped and modified by the sound team.

10

Game of Thrones did a fairly good job on this, with characters from different parts of the world often looking like it, aside from some issues with casting extras (pasty looking Irish Dothraki for example).

11

That's cheating on a huge scale if you think about it a little, so why not extend the cheating a little and re-use Lithuanian (say) or some other natural language as a proxy for Dothraki rather than going to all the trouble of inventing a whole new freaking language.

Quote examples

1

R is true because, as the Dothraki say, "it is known." What more proof do you need?

2

As the Dothraki would say, "It is known." Why doesn't it actually show the individual establishments adding heat to the map?

3

I'm gonna go back and read the first part after finding out this is the "Dothraki Horde" blogger.

4

His take down of the "steppe nomadic warriors" nonsense in movies and TV shows, and especially of the Dothraki and how they don't make any sense, is also very interesting.

Proper noun examples

1

The problem is that the war was over when Dani lands with three full dragons, the Dothraki, and the Unsullied but the series wasn't.

2

Scroll all the way down to the bottom and select Latin, or Klingon, or Dothraki, something really short and just for kicks.

3

My understanding is Westeros is based on the War of the Roses period in England, but the world is still built with other regions and non-white cultures (Dothraki = obvious not-Mongolians, etc...).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use dothraki in a sentence?

He claims to have based the Dothraki on the Huns, Mongols and other steppe people, yet they behave nothing at all like them.

What does dothraki mean?

A constructed language created for, and spoken in, the Game of Thrones television adaptation in 2011.

What part of speech is dothraki?

dothraki is commonly used as noun.