The novels describe it as no longer being used as a language of everyday communication, but rather as a language of learning and education among the nobility of Essos and Westeros, with much literature and song composed in Valyrian.
As novelas describen que xa non é unha lingua de uso cotián, senón que é unha lingua de aprendizaxe e educación entre a nobreza de Essos e Westeros, con moita literatura e cancións compostas en valyrio.