When the producers of the HBO series “Game of Thrones” needed to create the languages to be spoken in their fantasy world, they looked to a UC Berkeley alumnus. David Peterson, who graduated from UC ...

In the rapidly evolving field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is a growing concern about these systems developing their own languages, a concept that could have far-reaching implications. This ...

David J. Peterson, the language creator for HBO's Game of Thrones, explains how to go about creating a fictional language. David breaks down how he constructed the Dothraki and Valyrian languages, and ...

David Peterson, UC Berkeley alumnus and creator of Dothraki and High Valyrian languages spoken in “Game of Thrones,” will be teaching a three-unit course this summer, called “The Linguistics of Game ...

Can you pronounce “valar morghulis” or “yer shekh ma shieraki anni”? If you can say these phrases from HBO’s “Game of Thrones” or can at least imagine how they should sound from hearing them on the ...

David Peterson, who will be coming to campus to discuss the history of language creation and his own methods of 'conlanging'—or constructing languages—on Feb. 18 at 6 p.m. in the CASE Auditorium ...