Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-31283382-20161119195047/@comment-31283382-20161119225835

Blademaster Jauffre wrote: Dovahzul probably got some of its inspiration from the ancient Germanic languages. In other words, the ancestor language of German, Dutch, Swedish, etc.

The fact that runes are used for the language adds up to this theory. Actually, the script looks a lot more like cuneiform than runes.