David J. Peterson is de man waar heel Hollywood heen komt als ze een vreemde fictieve taal nodig hebben. Want hij heeft deze bedacht voor de Thor films, Game of Thrones, Defiance etc etc. Daarom had de website Nautil een interview met hem en daar van kan je hier onder alvast een stukje lezen.

Can you make a language that doesn't follow any human language pattern?

Absolutely. You just need to know what makes human languages "human" to violate those parameters. One of my favorite examples is a language where the grammar is stack-based grammar. It is a computer thing. If you use the language in its most optimal form it is something that can't be used in real time by humans. Our brains just don't operate that way. Another example is Rikchik, a language by Denis Moskowitz. It was created for aliens with seven tentacles, but they never produce sounds that a human could emulate. You couldn't even sign it! You don't have the right number of tentacles.

How difficult were the languages you made for Game of Thrones?

Dothraki was very simple. The culture is very well defined in the books. We know a lot about what their life is like, and the area they live in. It is much more difficult for High Valyrian. It is a language for a people we never see and are just alluded to, but it is spoken widely by other peoples. I still wait for George R. R. Martin books to come out so I can learn more and more little bits of what their culture was like so that I can flesh out their vocabulary.