High Valyrian (Valyrio)

High Valyrian is a fictional language created by David J. Peterson which used in the Game of Thrones television series, and based on the few words of High Valyrian used in George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire.

High Valyrian can be written with the Latin alphabet, but is not written in the television series in the first two seasons. It does appear in writing in the third season. A writing system for High Valyrian was created for House of the Dragon, a prequel series to Game of Thrones

Notable Features

Type of writing system: mixed - combines logographic glyphs that represent words, paradigmatic glyphs that represent nominal paradigms and inflections, and alphabetic glyphs that represent sounds (shown below)
Writing direction: left to right in horizontal lines.
Used to write: High Valyrian

High Valyrian script

Latin alphabet for High Valyrian

Download alphabet charts for High Valyrian (Excel)

Sample text (Latin alphabet)

Nyke Daenerys Jelmāzmo hen Targārio Lentrot, hen Valyrio Uēpo ānogār iksan. Valyrio muño ēngos ñuhys issa.

Translation

I am Daenerys Stormborn of the House Targaryen, of the blood of Old Valyria. Valyrian is my mother tongue.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valyrian_languages

Sample text in the High Valyrian script

Source: https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/High_Valyrian

Samples of spoken High Valyrian

Information about High Valyrian | Numbers | Tengwar script for High Valyrian

Links

Information about High Valyrian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valyrian_languages
http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/High_Valyrian
https://www.reddit.com/r/HighValyrian/comments/wuogsq/more_on_the_valyrian_writing_system_from_djps/
https://lingopie.com/blog/high-valyrian-language-house-of-the-dragon/

High Valyrian font
https://shoptly.com/i/bcj9

High Valyrian Translator
https://valyriantranslator.com/

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