dothraki1-1  Exercise 2: Origin and Size
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Who made it, who asked, and from what
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Dothraki was made by the linguist David J. Peterson. The producers of HBO's
Game of Thrones asked the Language Creation Society for a language for the
Dothraki, and the job went to Peterson. He started from George R. R. Martin's
novels, which contain only about fifty to fifty-six Dothraki words (many of
them names) plus a description of how the language sounds.

Why the vocabulary figure varies
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The language grew over time, and the sources are from different dates:
more than 1,800 words in 2010, 3,163 in September 2011 (not all published),
and about 4,000 in later reports. The Living Language book teaches only a
small selection. So there is no single authoritative number; each figure is
a dated report.