Counting in Kerch

Language overview

Kerch is the language of the small island nation of Kerch located in the True Sea in the Grishaverse world of Leigh Bardugo’s books Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows. The Kerch language appears in the Netflix series Shadow and Bone released on April, 23 2021. Its written form has been designed by David J. Peterson. The Netflix series features also three other languages created by David J. Peterson: Ravkan, Fjerdan (with Christian Thalmann), and Zemeni.

Kerch numerals

As stated above, the Kerch language has not been developped, as it exists only as an alphabet in its written form (an abugida, or an alphasyllabary in which consonants and vowels are written in the same units, and not separately). In the end, Kerch numbers follow the decimal system exactly like in English.

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Books

Articles

David J. Peterson After his linguistics studies at University of California, David J. Peterson has been chosen by HBO to create the Dothraki language for its series Game of Thrones. He then invented many other languages for television, the movie industry, and literature.

Shadow and Bone languages

Kerch, Ravkan, Shu, and Zemeni.

Other supported languages

As the other currently supported languages are too numerous to list extensively here, please select a language from the full list of supported languages.