Obsessed with Game of Thrones? You can take a course in Dothraki
We're all mad about Game of Thrones here at the Shemazing! HQ, so when we heard there was a very specific college course on the subject, we got excited.
The Dothraki are arguably one of the most interesting clans in the TV series, so it's no wonder that there is now a line of academia you can pursue to find out more about their intricate language.
The Linguistics of Game of Thrones and the Art of Language Invention is a brand new course at UC Berkeley.
The three-part course will run over the summer, and will be taught by David J. Peterson who invented both the Dothraki and Valyrian languages for Game of Thrones.
He plans on teaching the students how to build a language from the ground up, and use the Dothraki tongue as an example.
'In this case, students are going to be learning how to create a naturalistic language,' he said.
'These are languages that attempt as nearly as possible to replicate the quirks and idiosyncrasies of natural languages, those that have evolved naturally on Earth,'
Where do we sign up?
