David J. Peterson (born January 20, 1981 in Long Beach, California) is an American linguist.
He is best known for having a near-monopoly on the field of conlangs for TV and film, like Anthony Burgess once had.
Works
- Game of Thrones (2011 - 2019): Dothraki and Valyrian
- Defiance (2013 - 2015): Castithan, Irathient, Indojisnen, Kinuk'aaz
- Thor: The Dark World (2013): Shiväisith, the language of the Dark Elves
- Star-Crossed (2014): Sondiv, the language of the Atrians
- Dominion (2014 - 2015): Lishepus. the language of the angels
- The 100 (2015 - 2020): the Grounder language, Trigedasleng, which is English that drifted over three generations under pressure from enemies
- Penny Dreadful (2015): Verbis Diablo, the Black Speech
- The Shannara Chronicles (2016 - 2017): Noalath, the language of the Druids
- Doctor Strange (2016): Nelvayu
- Warcraft (2016): Orcish and Draenei
- Emerald City (2017): the Munja'kin language spoken by the people of the same name, and Inha, the tongue the witches use to cast their spells
- Bright (2017): elven language Övüsi, and orcish language Bodzvokhan
- Into the Badlands (2015 - 2019): Azrán, the language spoken in Azra.
- Arena of Valor (2018): Veda, Gandal, Afata, G'Vunna
- The Christmas Chronicles (2018): Yulish
- Another Life (2019): the alien languages of Achaian and Tala
- The Witcher (2019 - ): Elder Speech, the Language of Magic
- Motherland: Fort Salem (2020): Méníshè, the language of witches
- Lovecraft Country (2020): Language of Adam
- Shadow and Bone (2020): Ravkan (solo) and Fjerdan (together with Christian Thalmann)
- Dune (2021-2023): Chakobsa, Sardaukar, and House Atreides' sign language
- House of the Dragon (2022): Valyrian
- Halo (2022): Sangheili, the language of the Covenant, which he worked on together with Carl Buck
