Whenever Khaleesi appears ready to kill someone in Game of Thrones, she usually whips out some Dothraki, admonishes them with a few clipped consonants, and finds a creative was to take out her enemy. (Why, hello there, fire-breathing dragons! How convenient!)
But is Dothraki--the language constructed by George R.R. Martin, and furthered by the creators of the television show--a real language? Is Klingon on Star Trek? Elvish in The Lord of the Rings?
TedEd (a branch of the famous TedTalk series) explains how Khaleesi isn't just taking us for a linguistic ride when she's irked:
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