Counting in Ravkan

Language overview

Ravkan is the language of the Ravka nation in the Grishaverse world of Leigh Bardugo’s books Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows. The Ravkan language appears in the Netflix series Shadow and Bone released on April, 23 2021. David J. Peterson designed both the language and its writing system. While inspired by Russian for its vocabulary, and also Mongolian, its writing is a fantasy Cyrillic alphabet which has some resemblance to the Glagolitic script. The Netflix series features also two other languages designed by David J. Peterson: Kerch and Fjerdan, the latter with Christian Thalmann.

Ravkan numerals

I don’t know much of the Ravkan numbers apart from its numerals, which already tell us it follows a decimal system. And as you may have noticed, the numerals for five and nine are missing. So stay tuned, I will add content to this page as soon as I get more data.

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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, and Ravkan.

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.