When Did Daenerys Learn Valyrian Reddit

A letter written in High Valyrian.

"The gods could non devise a more perfect tongue. It is the merely proper linguistic communication for poetry."

―Missandei ^[src]

High Valyrian is the language of the sometime Valyrian Freehold which was located on the eastern continent of Essos.

Much of Essos was once dominated past the Valyrians for thousands of years, stretching from the Costless Cities in the westward, to Slaver'southward Bay in the east. The Valyrians forced the peoples they subjugated to speak in (or at least be able to antipodal in) their linguistic communication.

After the Doom of Valyria 400 years earlier the State of war of the V Kings, "High Valyrian" (as it became known) ceased to be a living linguistic communication, instead existence used as a lore-language by scholars throughout both Essos and Westeros.

Westerosi typically do not speak High or Low Valyrian;^[1] Tyrion tin can empathise Zanrush'due south introduction of Kinvara, and uses the same language to say "Welcome to Meereen", but then confesses "That'south near the extent of my Valyrian".^[two] Information technology can surprise many in Essos when a Westerosi such as Daenerys fluently speaks the language.^[3]

Loftier Valyrian is used by Reddish Priests to communicate with each other.^[1] This may accept less to do with its employ as a liturgical language and more to practise with the fact that most Ruby-red Priests are Essosi, and High Valyrian is the easiest mode of communication among them.

Lexicon

• daor - "no," "not".^[4] by and large at terminate of sentence due east.g., tubi daor ("not today") or zaldrīzes buzdari iksos daor ("a dragon is not a slave").
• dracarys - ("drah-KAH-ris")^[v] The Loftier Valyrian word for "dragonfire". Daenerys says "Dracarys" to Drogon, the young dragon, to encourage him to breathe fire and cook his own meat.^[6] Daenerys teaches her newly hatched dragons to breathe burn down on control when she says dracarys, burning Pyat Pree alive.^[7] She also uses the control to make Drogon roast Kraznys mo Nakloz alive,^[three] and to order her dragons to burn the ships of the Slavers' Alliance in the Second Siege of Meereen.^[viii] Afterward on, during her state of war for Westeros, subsequently the Boxing of the Goldroad, she uses the command to take Randyll and Dickon Tarly executed by Drogon.^[9] Missandei says "Dracarys" equally her terminal give-and-take just before being executed by Cersei. Daenerys later uses the command to execute Varys for treason. Daenerys uses this term for the terminal time at Battle of King's Landing, to burn the city to the ground. Some other word for this is "zaldrīzo perzys" (lit. burn down of the dragon).
• kēli - True cat (David J. Peterson'south cat is named "Keli", then he made information technology the substantive for "cat" in High Valyrian).^[four]
• kirimvose - (or kirimvos, for brusque; stress on the 2nd "i" for both; pronounced as four syllables:
  "Key-RIM-voh-say", with a rolled "R") - "thank you".^[10]
• issa - "yes"^[four]
• Skorī dēmalȳti tymptir tymis, ērinis iā morghūlis. - "When you lot play the game of thrones, you win or you die."^[4]
• Sesīr kipi! - "And now, we ride!" (command)^[11]
• sōvētēs - "Fly". Daenerys tells this in plural grade to her dragons in Yunkai.^[12] She was intended to say sōvēs to Drogon to have him take off from Daznak's Pit with her aboard, but instead said valahd ("horizon"; informally, "Giddyup!" or "Hya!") in Dothraki.^{[13] [14]}
• valar morghūlis - (val-are mor-goo-lis: "valar" is pronounced with an "a" as in father)^[15] "all men must die", in the sense of "all men must (eventually) die (sooner or later)". Throughout the Valyrian-speaking earth, it is loosely coordinating to "who wants to live forever?" in that it is used to indicate credence of a potentially unpleasant truth or assignment.^{[16] [17]} The word is as well a common greeting, especially in Braavos^[18] and specially among the guild of assassins known every bit the Faceless Men.^[7] When used every bit a greeting, information technology is answered with the phrase " valar dohaeris ",^[18] which translates to "all men must serve".
• zaldrīzes - Dragon^[4]
• zīrtys perzys - Translated literally as "frozen fire", the words for dragonglass.^[19]

Family terms

High Valyrian Kinship Terminology chart, produced past David J. Peterson (click to expand).

Peterson was hesitant to develop many terms specifically about Valyria'due south social structure, which no longer exists in the present day of Game of Thrones. Some of these were unavoidable, however, such equally terms for family members - which inherently introduces assumptions about their social construction. These may have been developed after consultation with George R.R. Martin, though specific inferences almost Old Valyria are subject to change.

Valyria was a order that actively good brother-sister incest whenever possible, to "continue the bloodline pure", and if that was not possible, as close a cousin as could be found. Peterson'due south vocabulary demonstrated several unique features about the Valyrians:^[xx]

• Possibly due to the many incestuous pairings, the same word was used for "parent" and "parent's sibling" - then long as they were of the same gender. Kepa could refer interchangeably to "father" or "father's brother / paternal uncle", Muña could refer to "female parent" or "mother'south sister".
• Like several real-life languages (such equally Japanese), they had singled-out terms for "older sibling" or "younger sibling": Lēkia = older brother, Valonqar = younger brother, Mandia = older sis, Hāedar = younger sis.
• Extending from how the same term was used for a parent or "parent's same-gender sibling", start cousins of these same-gender siblings were referred to using the same terms for "blood brother" and "sis", interchangeably. Therefore, the term Valonqar could equally refer to your "younger brother", or, "son of my begetter's blood brother (or son of my mother's sister), who happens to be younger than me". Whatever relative of this proximity, "sibling or parallel cousin", can be referred to as Dubys regardless of age or gender (comparable to "sibling"). A twin sibling is referred to as Idaña (literally "twin", just similar how English has a special term for that).
• A distinction is only drawn for a parent'south siblings who are not the same gender equally the parent, which are not interchangeable. Each of the iv possible combinations has a unique term: Iāpa = mother's older brother, Qȳbor = mother'southward younger brother, Velma = begetter'due south older sis, ñāmar = begetter'due south younger sister.
• In turn, the child of a parent'due south sibling who is non of their same gender would exist broadly known every bit Dubāzma - "Cross Cousin" (or more accurately, only "Cousin", as the son of mother'due south sister would just be called a "brother", with no stardom). More specifically, each of the iv avuncular (uncle or aunt) relationships has an associated term meaning "kid of maternal-uncle" etc., but which doesn't specify whether this cousin is male person or female, or if they are younger or older. This is achieved by but adding the suffix "-anna" to the parent's sibling term, in some cases causing a slight spelling shift in the stem word: Iāpanna = child of mother's older blood brother, Qȳbranna = child of mother's younger brother, Velmanna = child of begetter's older sister, ñābranna = child of male parent'southward younger sister.
• Peterson has non, equally of even so, provided corresponding terms for "nephew" or "niece".
• Given that Daenerys is the younger sis of Jon Snow's father, Daenerys would thus exist termed Jon's ñāmar.
• Due to the frequent incestuous pairings of the Valyrians, at that place were many cases where someone was both a sibling and a cross-cousin. Rex Aerys Ii Targaryen, the Mad King, married his younger sister Rhaella. Thus Rhaella was simultaneously Daenerys'southward Muña (female parent) as well as her ñāmar (father'due south younger sister), meaning that Rhaegar was both her Lēkia (older brother), and also her ñābranna (kid of father's younger sis).

Speakers of High Valyrian

• Daenerys Targaryen
• Missandei
• Melisandre
• Thoros
• Tyrion Lannister
• Varys

Low Valyrian

Without the cardinal influence of the Valyrian empire, the speech of their descendants and sometime colonies transformed into derivative languages known as "Low Valyrian", or "Bounder Valyrian". Depression Valyrian is not a single language, so much equally a family of various dialects well on their way to becoming separate languages - and so much so that even those who speak ane might non be able to speak another, and without common intelligibility, information technology could be argued that they have truly become separate languages.

Each of the Nine Complimentary Cities has its own dialect/language of Low Valyrian. These include Braavosi, Lorathi, Lysene, Myrish, Norvoshi, Pentoshi, Qohorik, Tyroshi, and Volantene. Slaver'due south Bay also has its ain dialect/language of Low Valyrian, making for a total of x unlike branches.

The Low Valyrian of Slaver'south Bay is somewhat influenced past the one-time language of Ghiscar, but owes more of its descent to High Valyrian than the erstwhile local languages. The iii great slaver cities of Astapor, Yunkai, and Meereen each speak a different dialect of Low Valyrian, but unlike the Free Cities dialects, they are however mutually intelligible. People in Astapor would call their language "Astapori Valyrian" (or merely "Valyrian"), to differentiate it from "Meereenese Valyrian".^[21]

Behind the scenes

• Valyrian was designed by David J. Peterson, who constructed all of the fictional languages used on Game of Thrones. Peterson created Loftier Valyrian independently, and then applied a series of phonological, semantic and grammatical changes to create the Slaver'southward Bay Low Valyrian.^[22]
• High Valyrian was not identified as such on screen until "The Climb", which likewise featured the outset extended dialogue in the linguistic communication. Kraznys mo Nakloz's lines and his short dialogue with Daenerys were in Low Valyrian, identified only as "Valyrian" on screen.
• Chain in Loftier Valyrian is pronounced "belmon", this is a reference to Simon Belmont, the chief protagonist of the Devil'south Castle/Castlevania series who can upgrade his whip to a chain.
• According to Peterson, when he offset created High Valyrian for Season 3, there were nearly 500 words in it - and by Flavor 8, there were around 2,000 words in it.^[23]

Appearances in the Boob tube show

Come across: Flavour Iii High Valyrian Dialogue on Dothraki.org

In the books

As a dead language of a fallen empire used by scholars and educated noblemen throughout a medieval world, High Valyrian is basically their globe's equivalent of Latin. Indeed, author George R.R. Martin has said that the one-time Valyrian Freehold is basically his fantasy world'southward equivalent of the Roman Empire. Virtually of the people in the western part of Essos speak i of the languages that derive from High Valyrian, including all of the Free Cities and all of Slaver's Bay.

Tyrion learned Loftier Valyrian from his tutors growing upwards, as obviously many of the noble-born of Westeros do. Thus even though the Valyrian Freehold never extended to Westeros, many of the better-educated characters are capable of agreement it. Numerous times throughout the books, Tyrion or other characters are observed reading books written in High Valyrian. Even Winterfell had several rare books written in High Valyrian in its collection. Samwell and even Arya were taught Loftier Valyrian by their castles' Maesters, though they don't know as much of it as sure older characters like Tyrion who have devoted a considerable number of years to its written report.

Every bit for Low Valyrian, Tyrion could speak some Braavosi reasonably well, knew a smattering of Myrish, and a few phrases of Tyroshi. Tyrion patently could not speak Pentoshi. Tyrion himself says that Low Valyrian is "non so much a dialect as ix dialects on the way to becoming divide tongues". All the same, the fact that Tyrion knows Loftier Valyrian and some dialects similar Braavosi, but cannot sympathise others, lends a big amount of testify to the position that they have reached the point where they are not mutually intelligible and are truly separate languages.

In dissimilarity, the Depression Valyrian of Slaver'due south Bay, which is influenced by the former Ghiscari linguistic communication, is more uniform. It is stated that while the Depression Valyrian of Yunkai is a unlike dialect than that of Astapor, they are still mutually intelligible. However, a keen multitude of other languages are spoken in big numbers in Slaver's Bay, due to the large influx of slaves from many afar lands.

Valyrian is described every bit sounding "liquid". The Valyrian writing system is said to involve "glyphs". This appears to have been changed for the series, as the handful of props bearing High Valyrian writing clearly prove they apply the same alphabet as the Common Tongue.

House Targaryen, a noble family of the Valyrian Freehold living on their most distant outpost on Dragonstone island, survived the Doom forth with their dragons. Presumably, the Targaryens of Dragonstone spoke High Valyrian as well. After the Targaryens conquered Westeros three hundred years ago, they conversed with their subjects in the Common Tongue of the Andals which was spoken throughout the continent. It is not clear if the Targaryens stopped speaking Loftier Valyrian entirely, or continued to teach information technology to their children. Certainly, the Targaryens were proud of their descent from Old Valyria, and the children of powerful noble Houses like Tyrion Lannister learned High Valyrian, and so it stands to reason that even Rhaegar Targaryen'south generation could speak High Valyrian.

Daenerys knows High Valyrian, though how she learned it in exile is unexplained. Daenerys has been observed in the Telly series saying words of High Valyrian, similar "dracarys". Daenerys is as well stated to know the (Low) Valyrian of the Free Cities, because she grew upwardly there, though which variants she knows are not clear. When Daenerys responds to a merchant in Vaes Dothrak speaking in "Valyrian", the variant she replies in makes him think she is from Tyrosh, and so she seems to be able to speak Tyroshi. Daenerys may be reasonably familiar with Braavosi and Pentoshi, considering those were the Free Cities that she spent the longest time in. She also briefly stayed at various times in Myr, Qohor, Volantis, and Lys, then she may take some familiarity with those variants every bit well. Daenerys quickly learns the Low Valyrian spoken in Slaver's Bay, which is very different from the variants spoken in the Gratuitous Cities, though her experience with other variants of Depression Valyrian helped her acquire it faster than a Westerosi with no knowledge of Valyrian languages.

In the third novel (specifically A Storm of Swords - Daenerys II) confusing descriptions are given nearly what variant of Valyrian is spoken in Slaver's Bay:

• "Even the Ghiscari tongue was largely forgotten; the slave cities spoke the High Valyrian of their conquerors, or what they had fabricated of it."
• "Kraznys' High Valyrian was twisted and thickened by the feature growl of Ghis, and flavored here and there with words of slaver argot."

It isn't clear from this if Kraznys is speaking in "High Valyrian" or if he is speaking in Ghiscari Low Valyrian - the Romance version of the language which developed in Slaver's Bay, twisting the language much as French twisted Latin.

When asked, David J. Peterson explained that even in the books, Kraznys is speaking Ghiscari Low Valyrian. This chapter was narrated from Daenerys's POV and she is simply commenting on how much they have "twisted" Loftier Valyrian - to the point that it is the different language of Low Valyrian.

In the Tv series, Peterson explained that in Season iii Daenerys e'er speaks in High Valyrian, not Depression Valyrian - admitting she quickly picks up several specific terms from Ghiscari Depression Valyrian. Specifically when she says "a dragon is non a slave" (Zaldrīzes buzdari iksos daor), the give-and-take "buzdari" is actually Ghiscari Depression Valyrian for "slave". The High Valyrian discussion for slave is "dohaeriros", but Daenerys used the mutual word for "slave" in Depression Valyrian to emphasize to Kraznys that she could sympathise what he was saying in Low Valyrian.^[24] Given that Kraznys understands her response, he apparently knows High Valyrian as well, but prefers speaking in his mother-natural language. Melisandre and Thoros explicitly state that they are speaking in High Valyrian during their exchanges in "The Climb".

In Peterson's words:

Kraznys speaks Astapori Valyrian—in the book and in the prove. Astapori Valyrian is descended from High Valyrian, but descended straight later on a process of creolization and de-creolization with the Ghiscari language. This development was different from the development of the other Low Valyrian languages, simply given that the source cloth is the aforementioned, it's understandable that Dany gets it pretty well, despite the fact that she'll miss a word here or there that's of Ghiscari origin. Dany but speaks Loftier Valyrian on the show. Thoros and Melisandre only speak High Valyrian on the show. Every episode that has them speaking Valyrian of any kind has Loftier Valyrian in information technology.^[25]

See also

References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "The Climb"
2. ↑ "The Door"
3. ↑ ^{3.0 iii.1} "And Now His Watch Is Ended"
4. ↑ ^{iv.0 iv.1 4.2 four.3 4.iv} MakingGameOfThrones
5. ↑ David J. Peterson's blog
6. ↑ "The Ghost of Harrenhal"
7. ↑ ^{seven.0 7.1} "Valar Morghulis"
8. ↑ "Battle of the Bastards"
9. ↑ "Eastwatch"
10. ↑ David J. Peterson'south blog, Dothraki.com, December 25h, 2012.
11. ↑ [1]
12. ↑ "Mhysa"
13. ↑ Selcke, Dan. ""Valahd"—The odd story behind Daenerys' control to Drogon". Winter is Coming, 17 July 2015.
14. ↑ "The Trip the light fantastic toe of Dragons"
15. ↑ David J. Peterson'south web log
16. ↑ "Walk of Punishment"
17. ↑ "Second Sons"
18. ↑ ^{18.0 18.1} "The Children"
19. ↑ "Dragonstone"
20. ↑ Loftier Valyrian Kinship Terminology, David J. Peterson'due south Twitter.
21. ↑ David J. Peterson's web log, Dothraki.com, March 19, 2013.
22. ↑ David Peterson and the languages of 'Game of Thrones', March 29th, 2013
23. ↑ [ https://io9.gizmodo.com/game-of-thrones-david-peterson-discusses-using-language-1834087678 David J. Peterson interview,] io9.com
24. ↑ David J. Peterson'south web log, Dothraki.com, April 22nd, 2013.
25. ↑ David J. Peterson's blog, Dothraki.com, February 1st, 2014.

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