#it wouldve died out/become obsolete within like. 10 years after the dance and even thats being super generous | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

banefort · 2 months ago

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im gonna be reallly annoying here for a second grrm shouldve added so much more linguistic diversity to westeros. especially the north and ESPECIALLY north of the wall. also there's no way daenerys's mothertongue would be high valyrian. thank you.

#high valyrian doesnt occupy a prestige position in westeros + the central targ household of 5-10 are the only ones that speak it + the only #practical purpose it served was for communicating with dragons and even that became unnecessary almost 2centuries beforehand + she wasnt #surrounded by anyone with enough knowledge in HV to back up their restorative aims. viserys would looove to speak it but there was literall #nobody in his life who wouldve or couldve taught it to him #it wouldve died out/become obsolete within like. 10 years after the dance and even thats being super generous #im a linguistics major sorry let me be a pain #valyrianscrolls #asoiaf meta #sorry to clarify i mean that we dont see valyrian being adopted by the lords as a means to signal their high rank #the language is very firmly restricted to the main targ household #so its like. if theyre not using it for diplomatic purposes #and if theyre not using it to control the dragons #and theyre also not using it to index their social rank #and theres also literally fucking nobody else speaking it #then it serves no purpose because the targs also all spoke common #all it takes is a couple of generations of lax tutelage and the king realizing Hey teaching this to our kids is kinda functionally useless #and it dies out. maybe except in maester circles i can imagine theres scholarly interest in it but even then thats not enough to sustain it

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