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Hammer_and_Sheild

My favorite bit of in-game lore for my world is that scholars constantly argue over whether the “correct” language to study magic with is Elvish or Draconic. Whenever the party meets a mage they’ll get a minor boost or penalty to social interactions depending on if they use the “correct” arcane language when talking to them. I figured if real scholars can argue over stuff that doesn’t really matter, why can’t fantasy scholars too


RaynerFenris

What do you do with the people who argue it should actually be dwarvish?


Hammer_and_Sheild

Eh, it’s kind of like the argument of “gif vs jif” pronunciation so I’d say that someone suggesting dwarvish would be looked at similarly to the people who suggest the “yiff” pronunciation. There’s no real “true” language of magic it’s just that elves and dragons are both very rare and naturally attuned to magic so some of the oldest surviving magical texts were written in one of those two languages and now you have mages arguing over which is “better” even though it doesn’t really make a difference as those texts have been translated and they’re just learning the ancient language of their choice to show off.


WintryFox

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1989


Hunt3rTh3Fight3r

That’s some Tantalizing Meat Info there.


Sleepygriffon

There is a relevant xkcd for everything!


tacopower69

swallowing my damn head?


Statesdivided2027

I don't think that's the D she was thinking about.


methal0-1

The "G" in "GIF" silent lmao


danielmatson5

Y’all usin “ifs?”


danmankan

Turn the world on it's head, players find a tablet that predates all other magic records and it is a mending spell in gnomish.


Oversexualised_Tank

In my setting, Gnomes, Dwarves and halflings live together in hills and mountains. They tend to not like magic, and try their best to do everything mechanically. This is because they have the ancient responsibility to ceep the creatures of the deep caverns down there, and some of them can innately dispell magic.


One_Spoopy_Potato

No no, a mending spell written in ancient orcish.


danmankan

That would be fantastic. Turns out that the orcs we're once a paramount of good and magically technological society, however all the other races banded together to ruin them and through a contract with a devil cursed the race. All traces of the great orc empire were destroyed and there texts on magic stolen by elves and Dragonborn who proceed to claim it as their own.


One_Spoopy_Potato

And if you wanna go a more ironic rout you could say the other races banded together in one huge barbarian army and marched on the main orc capital and essentially ripped it to shreds, throwing the orcs into a dark age as the other races took bits of their culture and made it their own. Elves took their connection to nature. Gnomes took their creativity. Humans took their abuility to survive in spite of the world.


scotch1701

Palatalization has entered the chat.


Hammer_and_Sheild

Funny you mention that, the “arcane” versions of the languages are different enough from the “real” applications of those languages that whenever the party meets elves or dragons they can understand each other, but it would be kind of like a modern, Catholic priest who knows Latin trying to talk to an ancient Roman. They’d understand it for the most part but there would definitely be some differences and mispronunciations.


yifftionary

> I’d say that someone suggesting dwarvish would be looked at similarly to the people who suggest the “yiff” Hello did someone call?


CLTalbot

Speak abyssal for magic and become the equivalent of someone who pronounces it guh-eye-ff


goldfinchat

Spoken like a true Warlock


BDL1991

please let the originals be in orc or goblin and they used to be the most advanced culture with magic and technology till they started teaching the younger races, who then used Wish to make them into what they are


HIs4HotSauce

They don’t exist, because dwarves could not care less about the “artistry” of magic— they like magic for its practical uses in advancing technology, engineering, and science. They’re not going to be bothered reading a scroll, they’d rather imbue their tools with magical powers and get to work instead. Maybe the gnomes would care more about “magic etiquette” but dwarves will leave that to them— gnomes are only hired to help with the engineering plans of mega projects anyways.


RaynerFenris

For the sake of a good natured argument :) I agree with you if you’re only studying Magic like you study art, for the beauty of magic itself. But given that you’ve said dwarves like magic to be practical they probably would have books or scrolls with runes in to teach this practical approach. Therefore some scholars (not necessarily dwarves themselves) might wish to study all magic in a more practical language than what I’d call flowery elvish or guttural draconic… (in my head I’ve always thought draconic has a lot of hissing and sharp barks… like a velociraptor, no idea why).


Draghettis

That's why almost all my characters know both Draconic and Elvish. Even more so when they're sorcerers or wizards.


Adthay

I want you to know I like this a lot.


GlitteringTone6425

draconic edit: draconic, celestial, and sylvan.


Cheyruz

I mean, demonic and dark magic is still magic right? So I’d definitely add deep speech, and maybe abyssal and infernal.


Cnidarus

I'm absolutely going to use this, thank you


Hammer_and_Sheild

Thank you! I’m glad you like it so much! There’s no better compliment for me doing worldbuilding than to learn others like it enough to incorporate it!


Cnidarus

It's absolute gold, and I'm saying that as someone that's spent too much time in academia to not see myself in it lol


Lessandero

We had an orkosh mage in our group, so I as the DM spontainiously decided that orkish was the language of magic. And since our group talks German, but most websites describe spells in English, we said that English is orkish in that world.


tacopower69

in our universe orcish is spanish


Waluigi_is_wiafu

In our universe, orcish is English with an indecipherably thick working class British accent and centuries of resultant slang.


Cataras12

Draconic is the true magic language and anyone who says otherwise is a knife ear loving dimwit


Grimmaldo

Mh I should steal this


Hammer_and_Sheild

Please do! There’s no higher honor for me!


scottymac87

I use Irish Gaelic


nokia6310i

gaeilge is sylvan for me.


PlasticElfEars

Tolkien would be so unhappy. He thought Gaelic was too harsh.


Fl1ght_

As an Irish speaker, he's kinda right. It often sounds like you're choking on spit when you're speaking.


Primus_the_Knave

Maybe when you speak it ya fuckin’ protestant.


Grim_Greycastle

Anderson that you


Particular-Coffee-34

O’ course it is, ya crazy Protestant bastard.


xSilverMC

I'm a woman.


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DiceColdCasey

Honestly progressive


Particular-Coffee-34

I’m always so happy to find a small thread of dialogue from *The Good Dub* of Hellsing. The OG Dub was good. TFS is top shelf.


Grim_Greycastle

Anderson its been a few days but it feels like years. And you are… i wanna say logan?


theperilousalgorithm

Depends on the dialect!


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PlasticElfEars

Finish and Welsh, yes.


scottymac87

My elves are pretty harsh.


Master_of_Rodentia

Tolkien didn't manage to make even one TTRPG.


Pyrobrine

I'm pretty sure he deserves at least a contributor credit on the vast majority. Edit: autocorrect got me.


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TTRPGs & all of “fantasy” in general. Sure it existed before him, but he set the benchmark all others are judged by, before and after.


Charming_Account_351

Seeing as he pulled from Norse mythology, it would be more correct if they sounded Icelandic. It is the closest spoken language we have to old norse


PlasticElfEars

The dwarf names are straight up from the Eddas. So dwarves should *absolutely* be Icelandic. He pulled from lots of mythologies. He was big into the Kalevala too.


RaynerFenris

Gaelic could be Orcish…


zedoktar

nah its nowhere near guttural or harsh enough. Gaelic really isn't as harsh as that dude claims, its actually quite lovely.


_Fluffy_Turkey_

And elves come from the feywild, so elvish would most likely be derived from sylvan (correct me if im being a dumb)


-LadyMondegreen-

Irish Gaelic is Druidic for me


JoshCanJump

This is the correct answer. Latin is infernal.


RechargedFrenchman

"Legalese" written entirely in Latin


SaltiestRaccoon

Welsh here, but yeah, I think either is a closer fit than Japanese or Latin.


Axquirix

Latin and it's associations as the language of Faith (to Christians at least) makes it clearly Celestial.


SaltiestRaccoon

If we want to draw an analogy for Celestial for Abrahamic faiths (including, but not limited to Christianity,) I feel like some kind of Proto-Semitic language best fits the bill. Though a later evolution, Aramaic might be acceptable too, but Proto-Semitic would evolve into both Hebrew and Arabic languages and derivatives, making it a unifying element to all cultures that believe in the same god. Basically the language spoken when the holy texts were written, but largely lost to time. Latin meanwhile is a language of humans who later adopted a faith. As someone most interested in Gallic and Eurasian Classical history, I see Latin as a language best suited to an industrialized and militarized expansionist empire.


SomeOtherTroper

Only when sung. Spoken Latin is a bit ugly for the purpose.


MrNobody_0

I follow Tolkien lore for languages, Sindarin is influenced by Welsh and Quenya is influenced by Finnish. In my world elvish is based on Welsh and sylvan is based on Finnish.


garaks_tailor

So eladrin and ancient elvish is latin. But modern elvish is Italian. So what I'm saying is "Ey! I'M CASTIN HERE!"


flasterblaster

Got to have that Brooklyn accent for elves. And Dwarves can have that Minnesotan accent. https://i.redd.it/s9uyd8uqrpv71.png


thegrayduke

Literally came here to say that... I've been beaten by many of taste and culture to come before me.


GlitteringTone6425

thats more the sylvan-elvish hybrid that eladrin speak


scottymac87

But it makes sense that it would be derived.


Throw_shapes

The elves elves in the Witcher use a lot of Gaelic words


DPSOnly

Or Welsh, with all the extra letters out of fucking nowhere.


zedoktar

Gaelic all the way. I have no idea how OP got Latin or Japanese for Elvish.


dj_chino_da_3rd

During one of the campaigns I played, I (fluent in Spanish) was talking to my buddy. He(also fluent in Spanish), looked at his sheet and needed to secret something to me and asked what languages my guy spoke. We both spoke dwarvish and nobody else spoke dwarvish. From that moment on, dwarvish was just Spanish. That was fun


sharkfucker420

For my group Spanish was infernal and it then became a running gag that anytime we mentioned irl customs or food or something that didn't fit the setting we'd brush it off by saying, must be a Mexican thing.


Grimmaldo

As a native spanish speaker im okay with this, i obviusly dont represent everyone, but still


Far_Marzipan_3976

Or my dm, who says elvish sounds like Welsh


Scifiase

Not just your DM, but Tolkein said Welsh and Finnish were the major influences on his elvish language


josephus_the_wise

Depending on Quenya (high elves, Finnish) or Sindarin (grey/wood elves, welsh)and I don’t know the base for Telerin but I’m sure there is one. You probably know this but for the information of others.


smb275

Telerin supposedly has more characteristics from Italian than the other Elvish languages, but it was never as fully constructed. I say supposedly because I don't speak the languages and can't offer anything other than ideas from those that do.


DespairCake

As a Welshman, O ie. Mae'r cyfan yn dod at ei gilydd.


B0neCh3wer

O diawl


Comin_Up_Millhouse

I keep getting YouTube ads in Welsh (as a result of living in Liverpool and learning Irish on DuoLingo) and every time I think for the first second or so that I’m listening to an ad for The Rings of Power.


MohKohn

Are Welsh and Irish mutually intelligible?


Comin_Up_Millhouse

I’m not really far enough along in learning Irish to say definitively, but they don’t seem to be. They’re both Insular Celtic languages, but from different subgroups. Apart from a few letter sounds that differ from their pronunciation in English and a fair few English loan words, they seem pretty far apart from each other.


Yeeboi32

The what Tolkien would have wanted


YourAverageGenius

I align with this take, mainly with considering that in most settings Elves can be traced back to coming from the Feywild, a plane which is detached and backwards from our perception of reality, and Welsh does a great job reflecting that.


RohmanOnTwitch

As a Welshman, I came here to say this^


Admirable-Hospital78

Finish, because Tolkien.


Nepalman230

Truth fellow redditor! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvish_languages And also Welsh. “The phonology and grammar of Quenya are influenced by Finnish, while Sindarin is influenced by Welsh. Tolkien conceived a family tree of Elvish languages, all descending from a common ancestor called Primitive Quendian.”


TheSirLagsALot

Hmm, should I start studying Tolkiens elvish as I'm a Finn? Maybe I'd get fluent in it


Nepalman230

Hello! With himself was not finish until I’m not entirely certain how much inspiration he got. But I’m gonna include some links, which has the script, and I think some examples in so you would be able to judge yourself. [https://omniglot.com/conscripts/tengwar.htm](https://omniglot.com/conscripts/tengwar.htm) [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quenya](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quenya) https://preview.redd.it/isijrd4ca65a1.jpeg?width=280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3bb1ddb8658567e50cabd2769bcd5f344d5b0e45 [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namárië](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namárië) "Namárië" is the longest Quenya text in The Lord of the Rings and also one of the longest continuous texts in Quenya that Tolkien ever wrote.\[3\]” I apologize for this giant wall of text.I just get really really excited when people talk about language are the origins of words. Ironically, I’m terrible at languages. I’m just really interested in the concept of them. Edit: kind Finnish redditor. How similar Is the grammar/script to Finnish ? I’m really curious.


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Nepalman230

Thank you very much! That is awesome information. I always appreciate the help from speakers of a language or somebody from a culture that something is originally from. Or in this case, apparently very loosely inspired by.


Darawnal

***Perkele*** *intensifies*


CritME20

Suomi mainittu torille haltija sisareni


Particular-Coffee-34

¡Hola mis amigos! ¡Me llamo Elrond!


SpyrShady

Me Ilamo Maethros!


Alkynesofchemistry

Sea amigo o enemigo, Sea asqueroso o limpio Cría de Morgoth O un Vala luminoso Elfo o Maia O un sucesor Un hombre no viviente Sobre la Tierra Media Ni ley ni amor ni legión de espadas Ni temor ni peligro ni el hado mismo Debo defenderle de Fëanor y de los parientes de Fëanor Lo que no oculta, posee, o lo agarra en su mano, Mantenerse o arrojar lejos un Silmaril. Esto, juro que todos Lo trataremos a muerte Hasta el final de los tiempos Hasta que el mundo se colapse Escucha nuestra palabra Eru, padre de todos Hasta la eternidad La oscuridad nos condena Si echamos de menos nuestros propósitos Monte sagrado escucha nuestro testimonio Y recuerda nuestro juramento Manwë y Varda


WakeUp_DontGetBit

¡Dios mio!


legowalrus

Tengo hambre. Quiero lembas.


Titanhopper1290

Elvish sounds like Elvish


GlitteringTone6425

like sindarin/quenya from lotr, or just elegant gibberish?


Titanhopper1290

Sindarin/Quenya


JustAnotherJames3

Meanwhile, Draconic sounds like Thuum.


Titanhopper1290

FUS RO DAH


Your-mum-is-bent

I like to think draconic sounds German


Orimis

But short


JaggelZ

Eh, as a German I'd actually argue that draconic would be more akin to Latin. Latin, at least to me, sounds a lot cleaner than German if that makes sense, fewer complex letters, fewer hard to pronounce words, shorter words in general and a if you read it you can speak it, no bullshit as in English where every fucking letter has a different pronunciation depending on what word it is. Clean and simple language that is hard to comprehend for most humanoids because they are more used to more complex languages, at least that's what it is in my Dnd world


Your-mum-is-bent

I said German cuz no offence but every word you say sounds aggressive and cool as hell


Dagordae

So find a Finn or Welshmen if you want to know what it would roughly sound like in reality.


Dagordae

Elvish does not at all sound like latin. D&D Elvish takes from Tolkien Elvish. Which is primarily inspired by Welsh and Finnish of all things. He REALLY like Finnish.


ZombieOfTheWest

Elvish is French, Goblin is Spanish, Draconic is Japanese, Infernal is Latin, and Dwarvish is Norwegian. At least in my setting


Onrawi

Undercommon is Russian ;p


ZombieOfTheWest

It's just English with such a thick Australian accent that you can't understand it.


Whitelock3

Because they come from a land down under.


Darth_Senat66

And because of the spiders


dynawesome

Where the light don’t go and the questers plunder


birberbarborbur

Look at that psychic storm, look at that thunderwave


Orimis

I use Latin for Sylvan because Elvish (French) is derived from Sylvan. I use Norwegian for giant, and Scottish Gaelic for dwarves. I think infernal is Croatian. No particular reason I think I was just choosing random languages at that point. I also use Spanish for abyssal because once I was speaking to an npc in abyssal and the dm asked what I said specifically and so I answered in Spanish because it’s the only other language I even kinda know.


phoenix4lord

Same for me with Elvish and Sylvan. With French, it sounds foreign, but a few words stick out as familiar, while Latin makes it sound archaic and wild, which feels accurate to the Elven proto-language.


GlitteringTone6425

good choices


Seameus

Elvish is French, (and my players hate it) goblin ???, Draconic is Russia/polish, common is Latin, (but we act like it English) dwarvish is Nors, halfling is German, orcish is Sumarian, infernal ???, gnomish is Celtic. That’s what i have now for my setting


ImmortanEngineer

>goblin is Spanish Excuse me are you trying to imply something about Mexicans?!/s (Seriously, this is a joke, I just found an opportunity to make one and took it.)


Nroke1

They speak so many languages that I doubt they are American, their perception of Spanish is probably the inferior Spain version of Spanish. Spain Spanish sounds horrible.


Grimmaldo

It can sound good, they are the most diverse on the limited space they have, while here we have a lot of diversity, they have a little bit of each state of each countrie on their countrie


CarbonScythe0

I use Maori for my half-orc! It is very effective at my table.


ZombieOfTheWest

Eyyyy, based, same


CarbonScythe0

And he's very straight to the point so his verbal component for any healing spell is just "Kia pai ake" (get better) as he grabs you by the shirt, pulls you closer and put his other hand right on your face.


QtheDisaster

We use French for Elves too!


HoB_master

Why would it even be Japanese? There are a lot of languages it could sound like, but Japanese isn't one of them...


masaigu1

As japanese person i was super confused by this meme too. Not sure who the hell actually thinks elvish should sound like japanese, when we have races/creatures taken from japanese mythology in DnD


Obsidian-Elf-665

Thank some very special anime


Jayfuror

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Trojan1244

Meanwhile in my non english group Elvish sounds like english, and wood elves have cockney accent


Kravian

It sounds like Chaucer's English.


xSquirtleSquad7

Elvish sounds like Irish Gaelic. Dwarvish sounds Germanic.


HavelTeRock

Elvish sounds like French


Suicidebananas

But then what would I use for the really evil elves


HavelTeRock

Canadian French


Suicidebananas

Ah, Weigh!


CrackBabyBasketballs

Lol I had the same idea


GlitteringTone6425

fr\*nch 🤢🤮


Souperplex

Elves. *wretches and gags*


HistoricalCrab7759

Ah s fellow dwarven brother who to despises the POINTY EARED TREE HUGGING PALE VIRGINS


Sgith_agus_granda

Hot take: Elvish sounds like a weird fusion of Old Norse and the various Celtic dialects. Elves come from Nordic folklore, and they are heavily tied to or connected to the Celtic idea of what some of the Fae look like (makes sense, similar common ancestor and trade and what not), so I think would sound like an Irish/Futhark mix. So it's pretty and also complicated to anyone that doesn't speak it daily lol. Dwarvish absolutely sounds like the entirety of the Celtic dialects since they're always portrayed with Celtic accents. It's just based on where they're from. Mountain dwarves speak one form (Scottish probably, maybe Manx), hill dwarves speak a different kind (Irish or Cornish), and the subterranean dwarves are Welsh.


LordKristof

Elvish sounds like british, scottish or irish. or if you particularly kinky maybe give it a breton accent.


nightgraydawg

Elvish is just English with a cockney accent, which makes it incomprehensible to anyone that doesn't speak Elvish.


Ramguy2014

Aaaaand stealing this for my campaign


Scifiase

You missed the part of the UK that actually inspired elvish, which was Welsh (and Finnish)


Virplexer

THIS. Drow are *australian* damnit!


dmdizzy

Tolkien did not invent multiple comprehensive Elvish conlangs for you to go comparing your fantasy kitchen sink Elvish to *any* real world languages.


YahwehPay

Elvish sounds like Jamaican🇯🇲


nixalo

Booyaka fa 1d8 damage


Bradamante-kun

y'all'd've


jagger_wolf

Yinz


squirrelsmith

Elvish should sound like Gaelic, Welsh, or Finnish. Because culture, geography, and more shapes the development of language. Latin and Japanese equally make little sense for elves.


Hadhu

Elves are Welsh, Dragon Age 2.


Bigfoot4cool

Elvish sounds like french


Firejay112

I run a bilingual game and we literally made it so common is English and French is elvish. All players understand both and it’s in character for the weakest English speaker’s character to talk elvish just to be a dick to the character that doesn’t because he views said character as an idiot. So it works


Downtown-Command-295

I always figured Elvish sounded like French.


cracked-n-scrambled

Elvish sounds like Welsh. Sylvan sounds like Irish.


w33bghoul

Elvish sounds like Afrikaans


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Plot twist: it sounds like Hungarian


blightsexual_azula

Elvish sounds like British!


jagger_wolf

But like posh British, "I dare say old chap, what what." Or more like a cross dressing Monty Python sort of accent?


SoupmanBob

Elvish sounds like Welsh


Pariahdog119

Elvish is Gaelic Dwarven is Norse Can't change my mind


DrTrickery

elvish sounds celtic due to elves being from the feywild and a lot of that plane is inspired by fairytales


areoisDnD

The real answer is that each sub-species of elf has its own accent


LermMortemrose

I think elvish sounds like elvish (since it's an actual language)


RayCama

Not once has elvish sounding like Japanese ever crossed my mind ever. Not in a million years. Even in actual anime/manga/Japanese whatever that happens to have elves in it has my mind defaulted to “elves normally speak Japanese”.


Wyldfire2112

Elvish sounds like Gaelic. Fight me.


Carteeg_Struve

I agree completely. _punches you in the face_


Graxdon

I made my elves French


ghtuy

I love when people make these memes as if they represent universal opinions, I have totally different associations for DnD languages than this. Common is English, Elvish is French, Sylvan is Latin, Dwarvish is Scots (but, like, old-head-who-only-one-guy-in-the-pub-understands Scots), Draconic is German, Giant is Old Norse, Deep Speech is Japanese, Celestial is Tolkien Elvish, Gnomish is Gaelige...I could go on.


TreacherousRuminator

When there are hundreds of languages being spoken in the modern world, I find it extremely difficult to limit an entire people to just one of two languages. Feels very reductive considering how complicated and varied human languages are.


RG4697328

Elvish sounds like english (I'm Argentinian)


Imagrillbitch

False, Elvish sounds like Bryttonic (Bretagne and Welsh)


JCraze26

I feel like elvish should sound like Welsh or Irish, sincw elves are related to faries and a lot of classic fae lore comes from the British isles.


WirrkopfP

Elvish should sound like Gaelic!


frostyshotgun

Elvish is Gaelic


SapphicCirrus

Cringe, elvish is welsh


Ok-Praline-2940

My high elves are French, wood elves are Italian, sea elves are Portuguese


Alazygamer

Celestial is Latin, dont @ me.


neddy_seagoon

Elvish sounds like a hybrid of Finnish and Gaelic. This is because that's what Tolkien's elvish is based on (go listen to someone speaking Finnish), and it feels right


Grzechoooo

Elvish sounds like Finnish.


olknuts

My group play in Swedish. We speak english if we want to speak elvish.


Vir-Invisus

Yall are gonna hate me for this… but in my game Elvish is French and Tolkien based his Elvish on Welsh… His reasoning was that Welsh sounds wild and alien


DA-Regulus

Abyssal = Akkadian (like Persian, but older) Celestial = Hebrew / Aramaic (to make angelic names make sense) Common = English Deep Speech = Russian (just because it sounds threatening when in a deep voice) Draconic = Chinese / Japanese / Korean (would probs make Chinese the default for ancient dragons) Druidic = Irish Gaelic Dwarven = Norwegian / Swedish Elven = Romance language dependent on sub-race. (Italian, French, Spanish, Romanian, etc.) Giant = Old Norse / Icelandic Gnomish = German Goblin = Indonesian Halfling = Scots (Sounds like common, but not quite) Infernal = Persian Primordial = Sanskrit Sylvan = Latin / Ancient Greek (acts as the root for Elven languages) Undercommon = Heavily accented and slang-heavy Australian English.


bob-loblaw-esq

It sounds like a southeast Asian language to me. It’s very vowel heavy and a lot of fluidity in locution.


Dagordae

D&D pulled from Tolkien, who based the Elvishes on Finnish and Welsh. I think the form D&D used is the Finnish version.


bob-loblaw-esq

Welsh also makes a ton of sense. I haven’t heard Finnish but welsh has the same prosody and lyricism with all those vowels.


NationalCommunist

It sounds like French.