High Valyrian Translator

High Valyrian is the language of the Targaryens, the Dragonlords, and the old Valyrian Freehold in Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon. It was built from scratch by linguist David J. Peterson, hired by HBO to turn George R.R. Martin's handful of invented words into a fully working language.

Peterson gave it real grammar, a sound system, and a vocabulary. It is not gibberish or a font trick. High Valyrian has noun classes, verb conjugations, and phonology rules the same way Latin or Ancient Greek do.

This High Valyrian translator works as a valyrian language translator in both directions. Type a phrase, get the output. Paste High Valyrian in and swap to get English back. If real ancient prestige languages interest you alongside fictional ones, the Old Norse Translator covers Viking Age Old Norse.

Valar dohaeris. Here is how the High Valyrian translator works:

1. Type or paste English into the left box
2. Hit Translate to convert English to High Valyrian instantly
3. Copy the output or hit swap to translate Valyrian to English

To decode, type High Valyrian into the left box and click Swap before translating. The high valyrian to english direction runs exactly the same.

Canonical High Valyrian phrases from the show:

Canonical phrases like Valar Morghulis and the dragon commands come back exact. Longer sentences are approximated, since the language has real grammar rules that don't always map directly from English.

High Valyrian was the language of the Valyrian Freehold, the empire that ruled the known world before the Doom of Valyria wiped it out. After the Freehold fell, the language fractured. Regional dialects spread across the Free Cities of Essos.

Those dialects became Low Valyrian, a collective name for the evolved forms spoken in Braavos, Meereen, and other cities. High Valyrian is to Low Valyrian roughly what Latin is to French or Spanish. Related structure, drifted vocabulary and pronunciation.

The Targaryens speak High Valyrian. Characters on the street in the Free Cities use Low Valyrian variants. This translator works with High Valyrian, the prestige form Peterson built.

GoT and HotD fans who want to follow what the Targaryens are actually saying without hitting pause for subtitles. If you've been looking for a Game of Thrones translator for the Valyrian scenes specifically, this covers that. The dragon commands alone are worth knowing.

• Dragon commands: Dracarys (dragonfire), Lykiri (be calm), Soves (fly). Test them here or look up others from the show.
• Cosplay and fan events: Daenerys and Rhaenyra lines land differently when you actually know what you're saying.
• Name translation: What does your name sound like in High Valyrian? Short names work especially well.
• Fan content and trivia: Captions, edits, quizzes, and Discord servers.

My sister was rewatching House of the Dragon and kept pausing to ask what Rhaenyra was saying to her dragon. We ran a few lines through here. The commands came back exact. The longer dialogue was close enough to follow. It was the first time the show felt like it had a real language underneath it, not just sounds.

If you have High Valyrian text and want to know what it says, type it into the left box, click Swap, and hit Translate.

Most fictional language tools online just overlay a custom font on English letters. The text looks Valyrian but is meaningless underneath.

Peterson's High Valyrian is a real constructed language with documented grammar. This translator uses that as the base. Canonical phrases are accurate. Longer sentences are approximations, but grounded in the actual vocabulary and structure Peterson built.

If other fandom translators interest you, the Yoda Speak Translator covers another constructed speech pattern. For deeper reading, Peterson's own site documents both High Valyrian and Dothraki, and the Wikipedia article on High Valyrian covers the language's history and structure.