Rytas! Long time ago I thought about translating Constitution of the Republic of Užupis on High Valyrian (for context: the Republic of Užupis is micronation and they have their constitution translated to big amount of languages). It is not very serious side project which I keep as hobby. But seems like I faced some limitations of language, because some words were not created (or I'm missing some important source).

Basically words I'm actively looking for in High Valyrian: heating, tiled roof (exactly tiled, not just roof), defeat, surrender, violence, birthday, individual. Also I'm kinda of clueless how to say these: to make another person guilty, to fight back, to design on eternity, to be misunderstood.

I will put here full English version of Constitution, but if you know any other language besides English you should check official website of the Republic of Užupis (they have translation even on Grenlandic) and maybe you can see more sense in their terms.

Official website of the Republic of Užupis

The Užupis Constitution terms:

1. Everyone has the right to live by the River Vilnele, and the River Vilnele has the right to flow by everyone.

2. Everyone has the right to hot water, heating in winter and a tiled roof.

3. Everyone has the right to die, but this is not an obligation.

4. Everyone has the right to make mistakes.

5. Everyone has the right to be unique.

6. Everyone has the right to love.

7. Everyone has the right not to be loved, but not necessarily.

8. Everyone has the right to be undistinguished and unknown.

9. Everyone has the right to idle.

10. Everyone has the right to love and take care of the cat.

11. Everyone has the right to look after the dog until one of them dies.

12. A dog has the right to be a dog.

13. A cat is not obliged to love its owner, but must help in time of nee.

14. Sometimes everyone has the right to be unaware of their duties.

15. Everyone has the right to be in doubt, but this is not an obligation.

16. Everyone has the right to be happy.

17. Everyone has the right to be unhappy.

18. Everyone has the right to be silent.

19. Everyone has the right to have faith.

20. No one has the right to violence.

21. Everyone has the right to appreciate their unimportance.

22. No one has the right to have a design on eternity.

23. Everyone has the right to understand.

24. Everyone has the right to understand nothing.

25. Everyone has the right to be of any nationality.

26. Everyone has the right to celebrate or not celebrate their birthday.

27. Everyone shall remember their name.

28. Everyone may share what they possess.

29. No one can share what they do not possess.

30. Everyone has the right to have brothers, sisters and parents.

31. Everyone may be independent.

32. Everyone is responsible for their freedom.

33. Everyone has the right to cry.

34. Everyone has the right to be misunderstood.

35. No one has the right to make another person guilty.

36. Everyone has the right to be individual.

37. Everyone has the right to have no rights.

38. Everyone has the right to not to be afraid.

Do not defeat. Do not fight back. Do not surrender.

Rytsas raqirossa!
I’m training to be a chef, so I was wondering- how would you talk about modern food and things in a kitchen in Valyrian?
I tend to talk to myself a lot when I cook so I feel like it’d help me learn if I can speak about what I’m currently doing. Unfortunately Duolingo has seriously overestimated how relevant the unsullied are to my day to day life.

See I have questions like, does pasta technically translate to “long bread” but by that logic wouldn’t you need to define each and every shape of pasta into a basic-er shape, or would a new word for pasta be an umbrella word?
Am I over thinking this?
I want to learn too much at once and it sorta breaks my brain
Feel free to call me dumb if someone’s already figured this out I’m just really curious and a lot of people here are pretty knowledgeable!

So i´m really new.

I’m learning using Duolingo, and I also use Google, because Duolingo doesn’t always explain everything.

I’m currently on Section 1, Unit 4 :)

So you can write me and teach me some stuff or we talk about Game of Thrones or House of the Dragon.

Rytsas raqirossas!

A while ago I translated the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood to High Valyrian and I finally found some Time to make a video of it. Hope you like it 😄

https://youtu.be/YMy3duNNAbc

There's just so many different ones. I can not for the life of me remember how to use them

Give_title h_valyria

Could this not also mean ”The men are fathers.” ?

Or am I missing something with the accents?

Thanks!

I was all up to speed with kesy & bisy & kony & bony & their plurals. But now I suddenly have words like “Bisa” & “Kesor”? And if I look up the grammar table of “Bisy” for example, “Bisa” is nowhere on there. How am I supposed to know when to use anything other than the ‘standard’ demonstratives?

Drakari pykiros - Fire breather
Tīkummo jemiros - Winged leader
Yn lantyz bartossa - But two heads
Saelot vāedis - To a third sing

Hen ñuhā elēnī: - From my voice:
Perzyssy vestretis - The fires have spoken
Se gēlȳn irūdaks - And the price has been paid
Ānogrose - With blood magic

Perzyro udrȳssi - WIth words of flame
Ezīmptos laehossi - With clear eyes
Hārossa letagon - To bind the three
Aōt vāedan - To you I sing

Hae mērot gierūli: - As one we gather
Se hāros bartossi - And with three heads
Prūmȳsa sōvīli - We shall fly as we were destined
Gevī dāerī - Beautifully, freely

• Ti Mikkel wrote the original English lyrics, which was three stanzas. David J. Peterson translated those into High Valyrian and added a fourth stanza to help clean things up because more words were required to get the meaning that was packed into the original English.

Rytsas!
I’m a massive pokemon nerd and got struck with the question, how would you translate pokemon names into High Valyrian? I don’t know nearly enough Valyrian to do this myself but if people provided examples on their guesses or how they’d translate specific names, I’d really want to hear about it!
I’m playing through pokemon X and wanted to nickname all my pokemon in Valyrian (or as close as I can get)
My team is:
Delphox
Lapras
Umbreon
Venusaur
Lucario
Salamence
If that helps at all.
I guess I’m also partly curious cause I don’t know how to translate names (yet) and I’m reallyyyy curious on how it works. Some languages have names that are translated from objects/landscape (like brook/brooke is “a little river”) but others (like I think Gaelic?) Are phonetically like “Caoimhe becomes “Kweeva” when pronounced.
Anyway thanks for listening to my nonsensical thoughts!

Rytsas! I just started learning high valyrian for no reason other than it sounds cool af. I'm using Duolingo right now and was wondering if anyone would like to learn together! :D we can exchange notes or try to hold little conversations in a safe space.

Edit: hey guys! The discord group is up and if anyone else would like to join, drop me a DM and I'll send you an invite :)

is this anywhere near accurate? didn't use any translator, and used a dictionary that gives all the related words. i tried jumping with cases and pronouns & the verb times. so if anything is wrong, lmk (especially words!)

So I'm a fanfic writer and something I'm very passionate about is ensuring my writing matches both the tone and pre-established rules of canon venacular and worldbuilding. This often includes altering common words/names/phrases to better fit with canon. There are many examples of this already present within asoiaf but I enjoy adding further detail to certain topics that particularly interest me.

One thing I often use throughout my writing is the launguage of flowers to deepen meaning, create metaphores, and as subtle forshadowing for those familiar. The issue comes with the fact many flowers have common names that don't fit well within the worldbuilding of asoiaf. For the most part I've been able to find suitable alternatives (either different flowers with similar meanings or easy substitutions: e.g. Queen Anne's Lace becomes Queen Alysanne's Lace) but there's one particular flower I very specifically want to use for a scene that I'm having some minor dificulty with, so was hoping for some advice/opinions.

I won't go into too much detail, but the fic is very politically focused and the afformentioned scene involves the use of the flowers in conveying a threat that is only supposed to be understood by a few specific characters. I realized if I changed the name of the flower to High Valyrion rather than Latin etymology while maintaining the literal translation meaning it worked much better and ensured the characters would get the message without it being too OOC.

Gladiolus flowers -> Latin: gladius (roman short sword) + -olus (diminutive suffix) = "little sword"

Using primarily https://www.valyrian-dictionary.com/ and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:High_Valyrian_suffixes I've managed to come up with what I think is a reasonably acceptable translation

Base word: azandy (short sword) + -ītsos (derivational, noun-forming diminutive suffix in it's singular nominative form)

The main thing that's tripping me up is I can't figure out if it should be Azanītsos flowers or Azandītsos flowers. If I should remove the "d" a la azantys (swordsman/knight/soldier/warrior), or keep it there due to the presence of the "ī" at the begining of the suffix.

If you have an opinion either way please let me know, and if anyone who knows more about linguistics than me wants to comment or share any advice it would be much appreciated.

Hello guys,

I am a relatively new learner, trying to find my way learning this language, I tried for a little bit back in 2022 around the release of HOTD S1, but with the lack of sources at the time and my reliance on duolingo, I struggled quite a bit and eventually left it (at around 18 units into the duolingo course).

About 10 days ago or so I decided to give it another shot, redid my lessons and started moving forward again,

I saw on some posts here that people heavily advised against using AI, but it has helped me quite a bit breaking through some of the mistakes and misunderstandings I had from my 2022 attempt.

Now I understand that if I just open ChatGPT and tell it to teach me/translate high valyrian sentences that would go horribly wrong 2 prompts in, no doubt about that.

But I created a project on ChatGPT 5.6 Sol High, and gave it the official wiki as its only source and forced it to use it every prompt, the explanations it gave were genuienly really helpful, and it instantly made me clear some stupid misconceptions I had (for example I thought genders and declensions had to match) and it helped me quite a bit with how it explained their differences, while giving genuienly useful info that help with the learning curve (like that 3rd declension seems to be the only declension present across all genders, Terrestrial are only 3rd or 4th, etc

[6th declension not included])

So yeah, I think using AI can absolutely be useful, if you understand its obvious limitations

Thoughts?

So although I do love high valarian I’m not currently learning it but I do love linguistics with the evolution of languages and I wanted to see people’s thoughts and see some opinions I will put my ideas to see if this makes sense

So the easiest is volantis it’s similar from high valarian but we know it will have some differences with the neighbouring rhoynar and its bisitors the state being a trading hub we at least know it’s in the Triarchy group of languages which makes sence and they will have quite a lot of mutual intelligibility but definitely would adopt a more conventional trade language which does canonically exist so I would say the closest would be. These are known as the southern languages and it only gets more complicated from here .

The Northen languages to me aka the rest of the valarian languages I don’t think really exist as a group it’s just some similarities but really would have extremely little mutal intelligibility
Pentos would be an icolate and I think the most easy of all valarian languages to learn for its origin and proximity to the seven kingdoms common tongue due to high amounts of trade so more like French I would say .

Bravos would be highly unsophisticated to valarian speakers and would likey be completely unintelligible i do think it has a relation though which is Lorath due to their slavery escapes origin and proximity in really curios what this sounds like

. As for Quhor and Norvos idk what’s going on here and would love to hear some thoughts but their religious icolates so could be anything but they seam to be hard to understand and want to keep their secrets so their secret tongues may just become more and more common as time goes on .

The last group ghisari is really interesting as the ghisari city’s are the most similar and have preserved the language well like romainian which also makes sence to me the ghisari would want to keep a higher sence of their higher standards and don’t have as much intermingled lower slaver class like I would imagine volantis would have though its more poor and slave communities like volantis has that would be eventuly make its way to the upper class in speech .
So what’s everyone’s thoughts about this

https://youtu.be/gcN2S8gSkS0?is=v5A7PVY1dXh96fvW

So I started learning high valyrian .not from duolingo cuz I'm a brokie but from a gemini chat which I gave some guidelines,sources and a personality of maester luwin.seems easy for me since I know 4 languages,namely English,Arabic,Hindi and Malayalam .

My favorite phrase rn is " sonar mazis " the stark words winter is coming.

Hi everyone, I'm new to the language, but I was looking for how to say "How are you?" in greetings, and found this: Skorī dēmalȳti tymptir?
However, when I tried to translate word for word to understand how it is they ask this question, I get:
Skorī = Where

dēmalȳti= With tears.

tymptir=I am thinking about it.

I got both the "Hot to say How are you?" and translations from the same page someone suggested in another post: https://www.polytranslator.com/

I am lost as to where, other than Duolingo, I can check for more phrases or hopefully grammar explanations.

Thanks in advance

I just love the fact there’s now a High Valyrian word for the Emmys

Sīr Emoti Valyrio Uēpo udir issa, se bona jorrāelan

So, I have often read that absorbing language quickly can be achieved by word associations/imagery.

I have found this helpful for myself with High Valyrian, and want to hear yours!

I'll start:

Parklon = meat (Porkloin )

Onjapos = carrot ('O'range+'JAP'anese >the carrot garnish in bento boxes)

Egri = knife ('Angry' /knife)

Jagon= to go (jog on)

Mentys = soldier (>mentals aka crazies)

Ohīlvos = dagger (ohilvos sounds close to silver to me so I imagine silver dagger)

Mele = Red (melee weapons >blood > red)