Dragon Language Dictionary

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Dragon Language Dictionary

Dragon-English English-Dragon

Fifth Edition



The dragon language is a creation of Bethesda Softworks, LLC. The Elder Scrolls?, Skyrim?, their logos, branding elements, and artwork are intellectual property of Bethesda, LLC. Any of these featured herein are used for noncommercial, educational purposes. This dictionary is unofficial and does not claim any ownership of the above or any affiliation with Bethesda Softworks, LLC.

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Introduction

The dragon language, commonly referred to by fans as Dovahzul ("dragon-voice"), is a fictional language featured in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. This dictionary contains detailed, comprehensive entries for all 647 words attested in the canonical language organized by the community. The language, and our understanding of it, has changed drastically over the years. initially set out to expand the language by allowing fans to submit new words. This crowdsourced effort helped build a community, but was unfortunately undertaken at a time when we didn't understand the language much at all (we didn't know what we didn't know). This resulted in a lot of energy being put toward revising the 6,000 fanmade words to catch up with our understanding of the language. The constant change not only made the language difficult to learn, but an approach to the language developed that I felt wasn't in the spirit of Bethesda's original work. Between a word submission system that promoted finding missing English translations and the word-for-word nature of the online translator which was prone to error, a lot of 's tools and materials geared students toward thinking of the dragon language in a very English-centric mindset. I felt we had lost the character of Bethesda's dragon language somewhere along way. This resulted in hard conversations about what to do with all the community's work and how to move the language forward. In the end, we decided step away from the fanmade vocabulary we had been fostering for years, and shift back to the canonical language. Even though we have left that work behind, we greatly appreciate everyone's support and dedication over the years. The site and community certainly wouldn't have been the same without all of your contributions. We spent months compiling a new dictionary sourced entirely from official content, and reexamining everything we thought we knew about the language and how we knew it. In each entry, you'll find citations and examples to help illustrate the definitions. We also established a new parts of speech system to best describe the language in its own terms. In the end, I hope this new dictionary proves to be the most authoritative and comprehensive resource on the dragon language yet. A huge thank you to everyone who was involved to help make this happen, and who continue to show their support for the site and the language even 6 years removed from Skyrim. Frin unslaad!

-paarthurnax, administrator

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