High Valyrianとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

High Valyrian

1. A constructed language developed for use in the television series Game of Thrones.
   • 2015, Douglas Ball, “Constructed languages”, in Rodney H. Jones, editor, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity, pages 148–149:

     The HBO series Games of Thrones, which premiered in 2011, has included the languages of Dothraki and High Valyrian, both created by David Peterson.

   • 2017, David M. Palfreyman, “Learner Autonomy and Groups”, in Autonomy in Language Learning and Teaching: New Research Agendas, page 79:

     Though two language courses (High Valyrian and Klingon) are constructed languages from popular TV series (Game of Thrones and Star Trek, respectively), there are reportedly more than 100,000 learners doing the High Valyrian course.

   • 2019, KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy: From Tolkien to Game of Thrones, page 113:

     The use of High Valyrian mirrors the use of Latin both in the medieval Christian church and as a common language used among the educated elite.

   • 2023 January 5, Belen Edwards, “High Valyrian from 'Game of Thrones' has four genders. Here's why.”, in Mashable‎, archived from the original on 21 March 2023:

     Another fascinating element of High Valyrian is its gender system. Nouns in High Valyrian fall into four grammatical genders: lunar, solar, aquatic, and terrestrial. For example, the word embar ("ocean") is aquatic, but the word blēnon ("mountain") is terrestrial.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:High Valyrian.