“Sorry, I don’t understand.” Luckily there is a translator for that! To non-speakers, languages invented for television and books may sound like utter gibberish ...

Language is one of the greatest art forms on Earth. There are thousands of spoken, written, and signed languages around the world with subcategories including regional and ethnic dialects and ...

For most people, the constructed languages spoken in fictional universes sort of flit by, an element that adds to the overall immersion of the experience, but that’s all. A lot of work goes into those ...

In film and television, language is almost always an important component for the audience. However, the sci-fi and fantasy genres have taken that basic communication several steps further by inventing ...

When words fail them, creative writers imagine entirely new ones. Author Patti Callahan Henry examines fictional language, from the words of Tolkien to her own. Our editors and experts handpick every ...

Last week, we were treated to a great article on the creation of the Dothraki language, as it is spoken in the HBO adaptation of George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. Inspired by this new insight ...

For all of Game of Thrones’ fantasy elements, the fictional languages its characters speak are firmly grounded in reality. Now the person who helped create them for television are offering a course on ...

Hi, I'm Erik Singer. [Presenter] Erik is a dialect coach and guy who really loves linguistics. Today we're gonna talk about constructed languages. Conlangs are languages that have been made up by a ...

If you’ve ever wanted to command a dragon, there’s a course that’ll teach you how. Duolingo, the free language-learning app and website, has helped millions of people around the world learn new ...

I don’t usually do blog posts about production details in TV series that don’t air for another year. But most TV shows do not entail inventing an entire freaking language. HBO’s dark fantasy saga Game ...