David J. Peterson

Date of Birth

1981

Birthplace

USA

Job

Language consultant

External Links:

IMDB Site

Twitter Page

David J. Peterson is the president of the Language Creation Society which specializes in the creation of constructed languages, or 'conlangs', from scratch. Peterson has worked in this field since 2000.

On 12 April 2010 HBO confirmed that Peterson was fleshing out the Dothraki language into a fully-fledged conlang for use in the series, with a vocabulary of over a thousand words. It is possible that the other languages from the later books - Skroth and Asshai'i - might receive similar treatment as the series continues.

See alsoEdit

• David J. Peterson at the Internet Movie Database
• The Language Creation Society website.
• David Peterson's personal website.
• The Dothraki language website.
• Interview (audio only) with David J. Peterson, where he explains the process of developing a new language.
• Peterson's blog on Dothraki in the TV series