David J. Peterson
| David J. Peterson | |
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| Born |
January 20, 1981 Long Beach, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Writer, language creator |
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| Spouse(s) | Erin Peterson |
David Joshua Peterson (born January 20, 1981) is an American linguist and language creator who constructs artificial languages for TV and movies, including Dothraki and Valyrian for the Game of Thrones TV show.
Studying at University of California, Berkeley (1999–2003), Peterson received B.A. degrees in English and in linguistics. He received an M.A. in linguistics from University of California, San Diego (2003–06). According to an interview given to the publication Conlangs Monthly, he had his first contact with constructed languages while still at Berkeley, after attending an Esperanto class in 2000. In 2007, he co-founded the Language Creation Society, with nine other language creators and served as its president (2011–2014).
In 2009, the television network HBO needed a fictional language for the Game of Thrones television series and turned to the Language Creation Society for help. This resulted in a contest, which Peterson won.
Peterson has created the Dothraki and Valyrian languages for the HBO series Game of Thrones and the Castithan, Irathient and Omec languages for Syfy's Defiance; but he has been creating languages since 2000. He also created the language used by the Dark Elves in the movie Thor: The Dark World. Peterson's recent projects include the creation of the Inha and Munja'kin languages for the NBC series Emerald City.
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