David J. Peterson – Wikipedia
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- Dothraki (Lekh Dothraki), the language of the eponymous people. It lacks labial stops but has circumfixes, inalienable possession, noun incorporation (a feature that was actually introduced by the writers of The Office episode Andy’s Ancestry[17]) and 5 grammatical cases, including a marked nominative for most inanimate nouns.
- High Valyrian (Valyrio Udrir), a literary language once spoken in Valyria. It has 4 grammatical numbers, including a paucal and a collective, 8 grammatical cases, 4 noun classes, an Iroquois kinship system, applicatives and voiceless sonorants.
- Mag Nuk (“great tongue”), an isolating, monosyllabic descendant of the Old Tongue spoken by giants and only used for one line. It has resumptive pronouns.
- Skroth (“ice”), an unused language that was meant to be the White Walkers’. It has lateral fricatives, clusivity and a speculative mood, and its nouns inflect for definiteness.
- Asshai, an unused isolating language that was meant to be the Asshai’i’s. It has lateral fricatives, nasal vowels, tongue root vowel harmony, syllabic consonants, clusivity and octal numbers.
- Lhazareen, an unused sister language of Dothraki that was meant to be the eponymous people’s. It has aspirated consonants and lateral fricatives and affricates.
- Gerna Mohr (or Gerna Moussha), an unused polypersonal language with voiceless sonorants that was meant to be the Children of the Forest’s.
- Castithan (Kastíthanu), the topic-prominent language of the eponymous species. It has pronoun avoidance, a complex politeness system with many honorifics, vigesimal numbers, a cessative aspect and its own very deep abugida called Fajizwalino.
- Irathient (Thwelu l’Irathi), the head-marking, verb-object-subject language of the eponymous species. It has vowel harmony, 18 noun classes, Afrihili-inspired plurals, vigesimal numbers, light verbs, inalienable possession, a pertensive and its own abugida called Izra.
- Indojisnen, the polysynthetic language of Indogenes. It uses septenary numbers and has its own featural syllabary, called Hazugimari.
- Kinuk’aaz (“our language”), the language of the Omec. It lacks palatal consonants but has ejective consonants, consonant mutation, internally-headed relative clauses, infixes and circumfixes, 11 classifiers and its own alphabet called Zaduusel.
- Yanga Kayang, an unused language that was meant to be the Liberata’s. It has 5 noun classes, obligatory possession, only distinguishes two vowel qualities and completely lacks roundedness, labial and coronal consonants.
- Inha (“we”), the language of witches. It has four varieties (referencing the four countries of the Land of Oz), called Water (West), Fire (North), Wind (East) and Stone (South). Witches use Stone when speaking to each other and may use the other varieties for their own spells. Inha also has sound symbolism, triphthongs and 24 grammatical cases (20 in Fire and Water, which merge the adessive with the inessive, the essive with the translative, the “converse adessive” with the “converse inessive” and the “converse essive” with the “converse translative”), including an exessive and an aversive.
- Munja’kin, the verb-subject-object language of the eponymous people. It has a switch-reference system, consonant mutation, reduplication, resumptive pronouns, inalienable possession, a negative verb, differential object marking and clusivity.
Shu, the language of Shu Han, was created by Jessie Sams, and its writing system was created by Christian Thalmann.
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