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Name the language

Simon on 25 Nov 2007

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10 Responses to “Name the language”

1. Nikki on 25 Nov 2007 at 6:49 pm #

   The alphabet is runes/Futhark, so I’m guessing the language is some old form of a Germanic language.

2. Nikki on 25 Nov 2007 at 6:56 pm #

   Hah, after transcribing it, it’s apparently Black Speech.

3. Alessandro Delgado on 25 Nov 2007 at 7:12 pm #

   It looks like Runic. Don’t know the language though.

4. Alessandro Delgado on 25 Nov 2007 at 7:26 pm #

   Yeah, as Nikki said, it looks like Black Speech.

   It reads

   Ah nok durbatuluk
   Ah nok thinbatul
   Ah nok dratuluk
   Ak burum ih krimbatul

   Which is really similar to the inscriptians in the ring, that read

   Ash nazg durbatulûk
   Ash nazg gimbatul
   Ash nazg thrakatulûk
   Agh burzum-ishi krimpatul

   That translates into

   One Ring to rule them all
   One Ring to find them
   One Ring to bring them all
   And in the darkness bind them

5. moonflowerdragon on 26 Nov 2007 at 2:00 am #

   To my sons (dartril & shortiye) and I these look like runes we associate with old Norse.

6. jake on 26 Nov 2007 at 4:05 am #

   Definitely Futhark Runes and i think that Delgado is right.

7. Simon on 26 Nov 2007 at 4:59 pm #

   The alphabet is Uruk Runes and language is Black Speech, both of which were invented by J.R.R. Tolkien. Alessandro’s translation of the text is correct but I think the transliteration should be:

   Ash nok durbatuluk
   Ash nok ginbatul
   Ash nok dratuluk
   Ak burum ishi krimbatul

8. Alessandro Delgado on 26 Nov 2007 at 9:23 pm #

   As usual, you are a hundred percent right. I transliterated using the Futharc Runes, and not the Uruk Runes.

   Matter of fact, I didn’t even know that J.R.R. Tolkien had created runes apart from the Cirth.

9. Anahí on 28 Nov 2007 at 9:50 pm #

   It’s a runic alphabet. So, a celtic alphabet too.

10. brianna on 13 Apr 2008 at 1:09 am #

    its a ruinic alphabet, i know how to write it. It is also the language of mordor, or Black Speech, which i have also mastered.

    ah nok durbatuluk
    ah nok thinbatul
    ak nok dratuluk
    akburum ih krimbatul

    one ring to rule them all,
    one ring to bind them.
    one ring to bring them all,
    and in the darkness, bind them.

    im a LOTR freak and read and write elvish. (and im only 10 yrs old)

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