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Dothraki Language Updates / Re: The dothraki language wiki site.

« on: September 23, 2011, 12:01:56 pm »

Thanks for your reply. As for the point about sentence I quoted being wrong, blame typing it in rather than copying it across (I said I would get the Dothraki wrong ).

One more thought occurs; certain words like laz are described as Auxillary verbs, but to be honest, they act more like English modals than English auxillary verbs. True, people are more likely to recognise the term auxillary verb, but the idea of a modal is simple enough to explain with examples from English. Just a thought.

If I spot other things that might help, I'll add them here.

Fonas chek.

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Dothraki Language Updates / Re: The dothraki language wiki site.

« on: September 23, 2011, 03:12:30 am »

I would like to make a few suggestions about the grammar descriptions, specifically suggestions of extra examples that might be added to make the descriptions more unambiguous.

Noun cases

I would suggest that declension of an animate noun ending with a vowel in the dictionary form should be shown. Perhaps mafo (young goat, kid) would be suitable. 

Similarly, can we have the declination of an inanimate gender noun ending in a consonant, for example tim (boot).

It would probably help clarify things if you also include examples of inanimate nouns that undergoing epenthesis in the Accusative - for example jimma (west) to show how a geminated consonant is deal with, and sondra (dragon glass) for when the -e is added.

Adjectives - Declension

Does Anha ray alegre ivezha also mean 'I have seen the beautiful ducks'? If so, can you say so. If it doesn't, what does? Even a 'We don't know what the plural of the adjective is in this case' would clarify the situation.

Adjectives - Comparison

Can someone add an adjective ending in a vowel other than "a", preferably an "o", for instance hakeso (famous)?

Vocabulary

Two points here.

The word gavat is given as 'n. meat   accusative: gavat'. As the Accusative given is regularly formed for an inanimate noun (and would be, I think, gavates if it is an animate noun), why is it defined as gender unknown?

The word sovikh is defined as 'ni. pear brandy   past: sovikh'. Is this, perchance, a hint as to how long pear brandy lasts amongst Dothraki?  More seriously, I assume it should read 'accusative: sovikh'.

I would make these changes myself, but (a) I know nothing about formatting wiki entries, and (more importantly) (b) I am uncertain that I would get the Dothraki right. And I apologise for any errors in my Dothraki and my English (especially the spelling, though at least one of those errors are because you Americans can't spell). 

My thanks for the work put into this wiki. My comments above not withstanding, I am impressed by the effort, and am painfully aware that if I did it, it would have a LOT more errors in it.