Languages

The following are the known languages that appear in the Elder Scrolls universe.

List of languages

 * Aldmeris
 * Akaviri
 * Ayleidoon (Ayleid)
 * Daedric (has own alphabet)
 * Dragon Language (Dragonish?/Dovahzul)
 * Dunmeri (name)
 * Dwemeris
 * Ehlnofex
 * Falmer
 * Giantish
 * Harpy
 * Impish
 * Jel (Argonian)
 * Lamia's language.
 * Nedic
 * Nordic
 * Orcish
 * Old Bretic
 * Saxheel (Argonian)
 * Ta'agra (Khajiiti) (sometimes simply called "Khajiiti")
 * Tamrielic (Standard language)
 * Tsaesci
 * Yoku/Yokudan (Old Redguard)

Akaviri

 * "Syffim" – Mercenaries/Fighters.

Aldmeris
(Aldmeris is also the Ayleid word for "Elven")


 * "Alt" – Elder
 * "Altmer" – Elder Ones.
 * "Altmora" – :"the Elder Wood"
 * "Akavir" – : "Dragon Land"
 * "Bos" – "Green/Forest"
 * "Dwe" – Deep (Dwemer = "Deep Ones")
 * "Chi" – Changed.
 * "Dun" – "Dunmer" – Dark/Changed.
 * "Mer" – People.
 * "Mora" – Wood.
 * "Tamriel" – :"Dawn's Beauty"
 * "Udhendra Nibenu" – : "Father of the Ninben"
 * "Welkynd" – (Welkynd Stones) – "Heaven Stone." (Literal meaning: "Sky Child.")
 * "Varla" – (Varla Stones) – "Star"

Ayleidoon
The Ayleid language is believed to be a variation of "Old Cyrodiilic rather than Tamrielic.
 * "Admia" – Ancestors
 * "Adonai" – Lordly
 * "Aldmeris" – Elven
 * "Amaraldane" – Heralds
 * "Anyammis" – Life
 * "Aurane" – Heard
 * "Agea" – Wisdom; Lore
 * "Av" – From
 * "Baune" – Mighty
 * "Belle" – Thunderous
 * Bisnensel – "New Water Halls"
 * "Bolche" – "Wood"
 * "Brelyeis" – Beech Trees
 * "Emero" – ?
 * "Gandra" – Welcoming
 * "Garlas" – Caverns
 * "Goria" – Obscure
 * "Gravia" – Ugly
 * "Haelia" – Terrible.
 * "Hectahame" – "Home of the Elves.
 * "Jorane"
 * "Karan" – Armor
 * "Latta" – Light; Shines
 * "Magicka" – Magic
 * "Malatu" – Truth
 * "Mallari" – Gold
 * "Mathlemldi" – literal meaning: "From-home-driven"
 * "Molag" – Fire.
 * "Moriche" – "Dark"
 * "Ne" – Ever
 * "Nou" – Our
 * "Par" – Fist/Grip
 * "Pellani" – "Outsiders"
 * "Relleis" – Peace
 * "Ry" – As
 * "Sa" – So
 * "Salache" – High
 * "Sancre" – Golden
 * "Sepredia" – Gifts.
 * "Sou" – Your
 * "Suna" – Bless
 * "Sunna" – Blessed (Sunnabe = Blessed Be)
 * "Tor" – Hill.
 * "Va" – In; In The
 * "Vabria frenscha" – Foaming Wave.
 * "Varlais" – Stars. (Aldmeris: Varla = Star)
 * "Ye" – And

Banthan
Dialect of Ancient Redguard. (Also calls it "Old Redguard" further down)
 * "Riglametha" – "Grateful-offering"
 * "Ghraewaj" – ""The Crows Who Were Punished" or "The Crows Who Punish."

Daedric
Has its own Alphabet, but is written the same as Tamrielic. See Daedric Alphabet
 * "Kyn" – "Dremora Race"
 * "Kynaz" – He of the Kyn.
 * Kynmarcher – Lieutenant/Minor Lord
 * "Markynaz" – Translates roughly as "Grand Duke"
 * "Markyn" – "Grand Council" (Of other Markynaz)

Dunmeri

 * Note – At some point in the past, the Dunmer had a complete, separate language.
 * "Fetcher"
 * "Foyada" – "Fire-river" (In the 'Ancient Ashlander tongue)
 * "Gah" – "Great"'' (e.g. Gah-Julan)
 * "Muthsera" – ?
 * "Mehra" – ?
 * "N'wah"
 * "Serjo" – Honourary Title, meaning "sir" or "Noble".


 * "S'wit"


 * "Sera" – Greeting given to fellow Dunmeri. (Gleaned from "Dialogue" section of Morrowind Construction set).
 * T'lonya - Birthing swaddle.

Dwemeris
Dwemeris.
 * Bthar-zel – "Allied City"
 * Nchardak – City of a Hundred Towers
 * Volenfell – City of the Strong Shield
 * Volendrung – Hammer of Might

For a list of books written in Dwemeris, see Dwemeris.

Ehlnofex
Ancient language. Now extinct.


 * "Nirn" means the "Gray Maybe". (Sometimes translated as "Arena")
 * (Unconfirmed that it was this language)
 * "Aedra" – "Ancestors"
 * "Beratu" – "Half" ("Bretons" is derived from this)
 * "Daedra" – "Not our ancestors"''

Falmer
The Falmer Language can be determined thanks to etchings in Calcemo's Tower, and Gallus's Encoded Journal

Giantish
– Established as a language in

Impish
Established as a language in.

Kothri
Roll me down down down to the river that welcomes me Ge-rulla seb-seb-seb ytri topali ke wel’kyn-ge

I am a Welcome Stone Ge una Wel’kyn Bal

Just ask anyone of age, little girl, for they remember me Yn set ghyn aka, ky’naless, synd laru’me ge

I am a Welcome Stone Ge yni Wel’kyn Bal

Wash me up up up and see! A familiar face! Too long gone! K’yness-ge bes bes bes ad’soon! Ha’phyn fex! Ald’ald-het!

I am Orlyan, the Long Gone Stone Ge yni Orlyan, the Ald-Het Bal

The Around-Us will be happy to see me again! Aurbex lemha je-je ad’soon al-ge!

But it might go, “Wait, you looked different before!” Hyn detta set, “Ka, g’e lr’khn nymbo!”

I am a Verily Stone! Ge yni V’arla Bal!

But it might go, “Wait, you looked different before!” Hyn detta set, “Ka, g’e lr’khn nymbo!”

I am a Verily Stone! Ge yni V’arla Bal!


 * Ald-Het = Long Gone
 * Ald'Ald-het = Too long gone
 * Bal = Stone (Also in Aldmeris)
 * Detta = Might
 * Ge = "Me"/I
 * G'e = You
 * Hyn = But
 * Ka = "Wait"
 * Set = Go
 * Una = "Am A" (Sometimes "Yni")
 * V'arla = Verily
 * Wel'kyn = Welcome
 * Yni = "Am A" (Sometimes "Una")

Jel

 * A language that is described as "the closest speech to thought." A way of conversing communally with the Hist.
 * "Hej xajhuthi kroni" – Vapourous, dangerous crones." ("Beware of witchlights")
 * "hejsetha thtitleel" – Vaporous, floating sphere (or Wisp
 * "hejsetha thtithik" – "Vapourous, floating egg-hatcher" (Wispmother)
 * "Wamasu" is a Jel name

(Below are from "Saxhleel" section - they are intimiately linked languages)

Argonian Language
 * "Al-Phid" – "Brightest star in the city."
 * "Daril" – example "Daril Drinker." – ?
 * "Gee-Rusleel" – "Miredancer"
 * "Haj" – Hidden Woods.
 * "ka" – "Apprentice.
 * "kaj – jeke thota" – "Ample-stinging insect" (or "Giant Wasp")
 * Kaoc – Form of expression of surprise or alarm.
 * "kajthux" – "Ample Serpent"
 * "Kota-Vimleel" – "Black-Tongues"
 * "Lukiul" – corpse. (?)
 * "Rormasu" – Argonian word for Crocodile (literal: "big mouth reptile that breathes above water."
 * "Saxhleel" – Argonian's name for themselves.
 * "Teeba-Hatsei" – "Hip and Ball Tail"
 * "Theilul" – Hurry? (Uncertain on meaning)
 * "Tum-Taleel" – "Root-House People"
 * Uxith – "nest"
 * "Veeskheel-Tzel" – "Ghost People"
 * "Wasseek-haleel" – "Bright-Throats"
 * "Waxhuthi" – Curse Word.
 * "Xal" – "Sacred"
 * "Xeech'kis" – "Seed Dolls"
 * "Xuth" – exclamation.

Nedic

 * "Sprig" – Nedic term for "fresh green twig or offshoot"

Nordic
"Merethic" – Literally meaning "Era of the Elves"

Old Redguard
"Yokudan"/Old Yokudan.


 * "Ajcea": A Spiral down. (Source: "The Alik'r ) (Mentions Ajcea)
 * "Ayh-al-Fifrah at-Hamisam" – "be at peace"?
 * "Anka-Ra" – Former warrior? Old warrior?
 * "Anselim" – Equivalent of "bottoms-up" (Maybe).
 * "Anselim" may also mean "stop" or "cease"
 * Ansei "Sword-Saints" (Other references too)
 * Ansu (Official references, too)
 * Atomos – "The Uncuttable"
 * "Greklith"
 * "Hel Shira" – Blade Noble?
 * "Kotu": Purifying? (Frandar Hunding) "weapon" / "edge"
 * "Mluo": "the divinely rich child of rot, silky, pressed sour milk" (i.e. Cheese). (Source: "The Alik'r")
 * "Netu" – "Turn"
 * "Netu Hu" – "Turn Right"
 * "Netu anselim" – "Turn Back"
 * "Selim" – "Halt".
 * "Ugak-ta" – "I'm pretty mad"
 * "Yarbans" – A Redguard unit of measure. (Frandar Hunding).
 * "Raga" – ?
 * "Sen nung ni-Bateki tro ki-lodo" – ?
 * "Tro zhang-ga let" – ?
 * "Sura"
 * "Surahoon" – ?
 * "Hira-Dirg" – ?
 * "Tobr'a" – ?
 * "Tung den uta-no-mongo, Ansu-Gurleht."
 * "Yokeda" – "Leader? Lord of war?

(See also: Banthan – a dialect of this language)

Orcish
Orcish is a language of the Orsimer peoples of Tamriel. Other examples exist of its separate language, such as Sixteen Accords of Madness, Book XII. *
 * No word exists in this language for "delicacy."

Saxhleel
(See "Jel")

Ta'Agra
(Ta'Agra)
 * "Ahzirr Trajijazeri" – "We justly take by force". (Zulana)
 * "vaba maaszi lhajiito, do-sura" – Unknown.
 * "Do-sura" – The Captain.
 * Dro-m’Athra – Everywhere? (Possible)
 * "Krin" – Grin/Smile
 * "Ziss" – Phrase used by Khajiit. (Mazil-jo uses this)
 * "Sa-m’Athra" – Elder cat? Senche-Lion?
 * "gzalzi vaberzarita maaszi: – "Absurdity has become necessity.
 * "q'zi no vano thzina ualizz" – "When I contradict myself, I am telling the truth."
 * "Renrijra Krin – "The Mercenary's Grin"
 * "Q'zi no vano thzina ualizz." – "There are no rules"
 * "thjizzrini" – "Foolish Concepts" (No word for "Rules")
 * "Vaba Do'Shurh'do": "It Is Good To Be Brave"
 * "Ri'sallidad" – "the dead" ("Martyrs")
 * "Vaba Maaszi Lhajiito": "It Is Necessary To Run Away"
 * "Fusozay Var Var": "Enjoy Life"
 * "Fusozay Var Dar": "Kill Without Qualm"
 * "Ahzirr Durrarriss": "We Give Freely To The People"

Honorific Titles:
 * "-do" – "is an honorific for one who has earned distinction on the field of battle or in personal duels. Beware of those strutting lions who apply the title to themselves, not waiting for others to award it.
 * "-dro" – "title applied to wise elders, patriarchs, grandfathers, and those who walk too slowly in front of one in the marketplace"
 * "-dra" is a title of respect awarded to one known for her wisdom and wit, or as a consolation to one who has achieved a venerable age.
 * "-daro" is for one who has achieved excellence in the nimble manipulation of loose articles, such as small decorative objects and unattached coinage.
 * "-do" is for one who has earned renown as a warrior—usually male, but occasionally (too occasionally, in this one's opinion) a female.
 * "-do" is an honorific for one who has earned distinction on the field of battle or in personal duels.
 * "-ko" is an appellation for respected healers, mages, and scholars, and is also sometimes added to the names of learned ancestors.
 * "-la" is an oh-so-fleeting title applied to graceful maidens who are unmarried, or behave as if they were
 * "-ma" is for a young child of either gender, a term of endearment.
 * "-dar" is perhaps the most ancient of all Khajiiti titles, an appellation earned by those who are nimble in fingers and wits, and are both inquisitive and acquisitive. (Example: Razum-dar)
 * "-jo" is an appellation for respected physicians, scholars, and mages, though it is also frequently adopted by charlatans and mountebanks
 * "-ra" is for an esteemed leader of soldiers, trade, or governance.
 * "-ri" is a title rarely awarded, as it is reserved for great leaders of our people, Speakers, Kings, and Manes

Tsaesci

 * "Syffim" – "Warrior"