It’s a Game of Tongues. Over-the-top costumes, epic battle scenes and maniacally evil villains are part and parcel of everyone’s favorite series and film franchises. But for a few super cool nerds, no ...

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 ...

Lizzie O'Leary: Back with you on The Takeaway. I'm Lizzie O'Leary in for Tanzina Vega this week. The new Netflix series Shadow and Bone follows an orphaned teen named Alina Starkov who suddenly ...

When filmmakers need an original language--one that has never been heard before--they turn to conlangers. “Conlang means constructed language,” explains David Peterson in a segment for the Academy of ...

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 ...

In this one-hour activity, students gain an understanding of the nature of human communication and foster a scientific view on languages. Through class activities, games, reading, and analysis, ...