#skroth

[dedalvs]

Hello Mr Peterson!

I was doing my weekly obsessive dive of TGOT languages as one does when I noticed the skroth language.

I saw a post about the reference grammar and heard a audio sample and it seems like the perfect language to scream into my computer screen as I learn, will any other material such as vocabulary be released or is the language like the show over?

Nah, that was an idea they had about having the White Walkers speak, since it's said that they speak in the books. Ultimately they decided against it, which I think was the right decision. So that was nothing more than a sketch to test out an idea.

[pesybeldragon]

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[dedalvs]

Will you ever share examples of Skroth?

Yes—after the show is done. (Though actually I already did at a presentation in Tennessee.)

[depravednotdeprived]

[mykectown]

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[asoiafuniversity]

Game of Thrones wiki:

Skroth is the language spoken by the White Walkers. It sounds like the cracking of ice.

The credits for episodes of Season 1 of the TV series include the statement: "Dothraki, Ashai'i, and Skroth languages created by the Language Creation Society and David J. Peterson."

Peterson developed a spoken language for the White Walkers to use in Season 1 (probably in the unaired pilot episode), but it was not ultimately used on-screen, and dropped entirely from Season 2. Instead, actual ice-cracking sound effects were used when the White Walkers are conversing.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly during Season 2, Executive Producers David Benioff and D.B. Weissstated that "Skroth" is indeed the official name of the language use by the White Walkers. According to the interview, the inhuman (and unpronounceable) sounds of Skroth, "ice-cracking chatter", were created by Sound Designer Peter Brown.

David J Peterson:

I created some stuff for both Skroth and Asshai’i, but I don’t think any of it ended up on screen. I’m not sure what I’ll do with those sketches, but they’ll probably stay under wraps for the duration of the series (not that they were anything big). [x]

Skroth: To the extent that this even counts as a language, I like the sound of it, and the concept of an almost Nordic-like creole (not a posteriori, but in its sound). [x]

[Skroth] is not something that I’m likely to release while the show is ongoing. You never know what will happen in future seasons, if something will be used, if something will be changed, etc., so I don’t want to release that sketch or the other while there’s a chance they might yet emerge in a similar or radically different form. [x]

[dedalvs]

While scrolling through your blog I saw a post about what you like about your conlangs, and you mention Skroth, which the Game of Thrones wiki mentiones as the language of the White Walkers (Others). Is there anywhere I could find anything about this language, because by the way you describe it, it sounds rather interesting.

This is not something that I’m likely to release while the show is ongoing. You never know what will happen in future seasons, if something will be used, if something will be changed, etc., so I don’t want to release that sketch or the other while there’s a chance they might yet emerge in a similar or radically different form.